Bug 23801
| Summary: | Attempted and failed Redhat 7 install on duel processor PowerEdge 4400 w/ RAID 5 (Perc SC) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <sussillo> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| Whiteboard: | |||||||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2001-01-12 20:48:09 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
| Embargoed: | |||||||
| Attachments: |
|
||||||
Btw, this error came up after an initial error: The installation is proceeding through the formatting of the partitions I have created. It gets to a certain partition and then hangs. So I reboot and try to install in text mode, hoping to shake things up a little. I get to the same point where things hang, and then I press the magical "Enter" button. The jogs the hang and the formatting proceeds. After I format some more partitions, I get to the swap partition and immediately get the error: "Error creating swap on defvice sda21" and then: "Error mounting sda19: Device not configured." If I'm guessing, the first error happened, causing the install to puke. The program then tried to dump core or write to the tmp/install.log (or whatever it's called) and then realized that /tmp hadn't been formatted yet, or if it had, it was all @#$%! up, thus causing the second error message. I believe the dump listed was from the secondary error and not the originating error. In total I observed three anomalies: 1. Formatting /q/atheneaum/home/atheneaum6 hangs. 2. Creating a swap file fails. 3. Accessing sda19 fails. What is the exact hardware specs of the machine you are installing? Created attachment 7425 [details]
System specification
PS - Dell was able to get a copy of Redhat installed. But I didn't like their "no reasonable partitions" policy. Plus, I wanted to reconfigure the RAID setup so that I had 1 (of 6) hot swappable backup disks in the RAID array. After I made this change through the PERC BIOS I attempted to reinstall Redhat. For the record, I got Linux to install. All I had to do was change all my 18Gb partitions to 38Gb partitions. I'm guessing there is some implicit limit on the number of partitions that will format OR that there is some bug concerning the size of the partition name OR a little bit of both. Most of my partitions were of the form: /q/atheneaum/home/atheneaum1 (Through 7) /q/atheneaum/proj/atheneaum1 (Through 6) /tmp /var / /usr /boot swap All told that's about 20. Is that too many? Of course I'm not very happy with my new partitioning because now it's a lot harder to backup based on partitions. Oh well, maybe next time. Hope this helps. -David I think the limit imposed by the linux kernel is 16 partitions per SCSI drive. Well, that would make a lot of sense since I had 7 home 6 proj and 5 other partiions. This sums to 18, but it started at 5, so make 23. It dies on '21', which if you subtrace the 5 is 16. Viola. Normally I look for bugs around powers of 2 as system limit bugs but the starting at 5 threw me. Thanks, d |
Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1476, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (6, 'Device not configured') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 10241406 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 8226138> msg: Device not configured doFormat: 1 errno: 6 device: sda19 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>