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Bug 57167

Summary:	insufficient device nodes when many partitions created
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Richard Keech <rkeech>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	nobody
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Description Richard Keech 2001-12-06 09:54:15 UTC

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Description of problem:
It is possible to create more than 16 partitions on a single disk with Disk
Druid. 
However, anaconda does note take steps to ensure that sufficient device
nodes are
created.  When there are insufficent device nodes the system will not boot
because
e2label can't find the necessary fs labels.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. custom install
2. make more than sixteen partitions in disk druid	(on single disk)
3. boot
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-12-07 21:49:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12099 ***