Bug 474049
| Summary: | can't partition harddrive without passing 'nodmraid' | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jelle Geerts <jellegeerts> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list |
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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: | 2008-12-04 20:29:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Jelle Geerts
2008-12-01 20:57:34 UTC
Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing whether or not you have RAID enabled in your BIOS. Since the RAID metadata exists on your disks, we have to assume that you've got it enabled and treat your disks like a RAID device. The solution is to temporarily enable RAID in the BIOS, delete the RAID device, and then disable it again. anaconda will then no longer assume you've got RAID active and give you the disks separately like you want. Yes, but shouldn't be there a way to tell anaconda that I really am not using RAID? There is - the presence or absence of RAID metadata on the disks. Yes, but of course I mean to ask: Why can't the user override this from the setup? Well, the "nodmraid" parameter is basically the way to override this. Problem is, the presence of the RAID metadata means we really have to assume that the BIOS assembled a RAID device for us. And there's no way to interface with the BIOS to determine this, or even to turn it on or off. If we take the opposite approach and assume there's not a RAID device, then we're opening ourselves up to a whole other set of bugs where people don't get bootable machines because their BIOS sets up a RAID device, but anaconda did not treat it as such. This is an area where we are trying to be very cautious. Though, after installing Fedora 10, the 'nodmraid' option is no longer needed to boot up the system. This means that in anaconda, I think it should be possible to override _manually_. I'm not sure whether this is possible. Perhaps when the user says to anaconda "Don't use RAID" the dmraid module needs to be removed from the kernel at runtime? Do the /dev/sda1 etc. devices even exist when the dmraid module is loaded? Kernel developers recommend to never remove modules once they're loaded, so that's not really an option. The device nodes are created as needed by HAL when kernel notifications are sent from the kernel, just as they would be on a running system. Okay, so if I get it right, the devices /dev/sd* are also created, along with the /dev/mapper/*devices. Now, is it possible to let the user choose the devices for partitioning their disks (either with the /dev/mapper/* devices or /dev/sd*) in Anaconda? That way my issue would be easily solvable in the next Fedora release (or perhaps a later version), I believe. |