Bug 29567

Summary:	Install loader cannot mount ida device
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bryan Leopard <bryan.leopard>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	dr, prago
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Description Bryan Leopard 2001-02-26 16:46:24 UTC

Scenario:

Kickstart from a hard drive, using a Compaq array controller as primary 
boot device. (module cpqarray).

Distribution files are in partition ida/c0d0p4.

Launch the install from the FAT partition using loadlin .  Loadlin command-
line includes: ks=hd:ida/c0d0p4/ks.cfg


Result:

Loader fails because it cannot find ks.cfg.


Observations:

The log panel indicates the loader attempted to create device 'ida' 
instead of 'ida/c0d0p4'.  The error message is: 'failed to make device 
ida'.


Notes:

No fix provided will work until the auto-probe of the array controller is 
also fixed (7.1 RC1 does not automatically pick up cpqarray during 
autoprobe).  This has been tested with 7.0 (no broken autoprobe) and fails 
in a similar manner.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-26 23:55:13 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2001-02-28 15:26:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23942 ***

Comment 3 Matt Wilson 2001-03-07 15:57:31 UTC

not really a dup of 23942;  I have a fix checked in to CVS and will test later
today.

Comment 4 Matt Wilson 2001-03-08 17:00:37 UTC

verified - I kicked off a ks.cfg on ida/c0d0p7 in the test lab today.

Comment 5 Bryan Leopard 2001-03-15 23:36:23 UTC

We ran a test yesterday evening.  It got further, but still dies.
Heres what we found:

Here is the error message that dumps to the screen with
an array controller (tested unit was ML 330, SA 4200) using
qa0309 pass from RedHat.  SCSI controller works ok.
_______________________________________________________
Traceback (innermost last):
File /usr/bin/anaconda.real, line 449, in ?
i = string.index(driveAndType, :)

File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/string.py, line 226, in index
ValueError: substring not found in string.index

install exited abnormally
<termination signals to screen>

Comment 6 Matt Wilson 2001-03-15 23:53:04 UTC

what were you testing against?  i've already fixed this bug.

Comment 7 Matt Wilson 2001-03-16 00:19:38 UTC

oh, qa0309 - my fix wasn't in that test tree.