Bug 431500
| Summary: | Installation on IDE with > 15 partitions fails. (Exception raised) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Graeme Gill <graeme> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | anthrocite7 |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-08-05 20:58:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Same problem occurs even if the drive with > 15 partitions is not involved in the installation: IDE/PATA 0 /dev/sdc (formerly /dev/hda) has > 15 partitions IDE/PATA 1 ...... IDE/PATA 2 (DVD) IDE/PATA 3 ...... SATA 0 /dev/sda SATA 1 /dev/sdb <== Target of the installation Target is ext3 partition /dev/sdb12. Source is ....iso on /dev/sda6. Installation warns that a drive has > 15 partitions, do you want to continue? <yes> Crashes just before packages are copied. (write detail to floppy failed too) Tried disabling PATA drives in BIOS - no effect, anaconda still recognizes them. Workaround - physically unplug PATA0, 1, 3. Installation runs cleanly. I believe this bug (or something similar) has been reported in F9 as well, but have you tried installing the latest release? The 15 partition limit is imposed by libata, which is in the kernel in Fedora. We are bound by those limitations. Use LVM or use fewer partitions. This is now fixed as of kernel 2.6.28. Please see bug 465231. |
Description of problem: Fedora Core 8 fails to install on a system using an IDE (SATA) driver with more than 15 partitions, even when attemting to install to a partition less than or equal to 15. The kernel is supposed to be able to handle up to 32 partitions on an IDE driver, and other Linux instalations (ie. Ubuntu) sucessfully install on this system. The system uses: ASUS P5K-V Intel chipset motherboard 500GB SATA hard drive Pioneer SATA DVD RW drive The driver has 3 normal partitions for the boot manager and 2 MSWindows versions, and 15 extended partitions for Linux of about 25GB each. (This is an application test machine for testing and debugging an application on the various operating system versions. I am unable to continue with the task of getting this application working on Fedora if I am unable to install it). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure an IDE (SATA) driver with more than 15 partions 2. Attempt to install Fedora Core 8 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: Transcibed exception information (unable to cut and paste) anaconda 11.3.0.50 exception report Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 1242, in OpenDevices for line in exc.splitlines(): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 116, in createLabel diskset.openDevices()