Bug 64505
| Summary: | Anaconda does not see system to upgrade on ATA devices | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tom Diehl <me> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | cbsled, edwinh, kfd, pnelson |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-04-22 16:30:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Tom Diehl
2002-05-06 22:20:14 UTC
Ditto here - also using the NFS upgrade option. install says it can't find any existing linux partitions... If I switch to the shell vt from the install screen, then mknod /dev/hda, and fdisk -l /dev/hda, I can see all the partitions. anaconda still can't see my existing installation. machine is running 7.2 at the moment just fine. If you run parted /dev/hda does it see your partitions? Looks like it to me, Here is the output: (roo pts2) # parted /dev/hda GNU Parted 1.4.16 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Using /dev/hda Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 784/255/63. You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this program. (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-6149.882 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 23.532 primary ext3 boot 4 23.533 6149.882 extended 5 23.563 517.719 logical ext3 6 517.750 1513.938 logical ext3 7 1513.969 2510.156 logical ext3 8 2510.187 3004.343 logical ext3 9 3004.374 3498.530 logical ext3 10 3498.561 3600.505 logical ext3 11 3600.536 3796.611 logical linux-swap 12 3796.642 6149.882 logical ext3 (parted) I have the same problem with attempting to do an ftp upgrade. It does not find any devices. The error message is... Error mounting filesystem on hde1,2,3,5,6,7: No such device. When I look in /tmp I see the hde devices. My complete system profile is on RHN under username rtfmoz. If I do mknod hde b 33 0 and then fdisk hde I get the full partition table listed. For some reason the installer wont recognise the partitions. Regards Kevin What is the ATA controller in each of these cases? 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02) I think this is what you want: (roo pts1) # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX] (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] (roo pts1) # If not please tell me where to get the info. It is an on board controller. I have a CDROM and IDE tape backup on the onboard ide. My bootable hard disk is on a Promise ATA100 TX2 (20268). Modifying summary line. Ok lets start over. If you boot into the installer, goto the Disk Druid partitioning screen, I'm understanding that none of you can see the drives on the ATA100 controller? If at this point you hit cntl-alt-f2 and goto the shell prompt and type 'parted /tmp/hde', you CAN see the drive and partitions? We'll figure this out. Now I am confused. My machine does NOT have an ATA100 COntroller. It is an old P120 using the onboard controller as indicated above. For the record if I go into the disk druid partitioning in the installer I CAN see my partitions. If I select upgrade the upgrade fails because it CANNOT find an existing installation to upgrade. I did not run parted from the installer the info I posted previously was from a running 7.1 installation. If it is useful I will reboot into the installer and run parted. Please let me know. Hmmmm, ok I have got the CDs now and I will upgrade with them. I think the problem is going to be that once I do that we wont be able to diagnose this problem anymore. I can hold off on the upgrade so we get the problem identified if you like? - Let me know. I think I may have found out some of what is going on here. - I factored out the network install being part of the problem, the same thing happens with CD's. - Just a plain "install" rather than upgrade bails trying to find devices as well, when going into Disk Druid. - Flipping to the shell vt and doing "parted /tmp/hda" gives a warning saying "You can't have a partition outside the disk". "print" in parted shows nothing! - "fdisk -l /tmp/hda" (still in the shell vt from booting the installer) shows all the partitions fine! - I have a large 80GB Maxtor disk. The BIOS sees it with a "clipped" geometry. I think this is what is causing parted to barf. Do we all have these > 33.8GB disks? If so this could explain the problem? Once the system is up (not in the installer), using the parted from 7.3 shows this: Using /dev/hda Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 155009/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503.999M. (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-76293.945 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 300.234 primary ext3 2 300.234 600.468 primary ext3 3 600.469 5600.601 primary ext3 4 5600.602 76293.492 extended 5 5600.632 7600.851 logical ext3 6 7600.882 8114.203 logical ext3 7 8114.234 8627.554 logical linux-swap 8 8627.585 76293.492 logical ext3 And fdisk -l shows this: Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 155009 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 610 307408+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 611 1220 307440 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1221 11379 5120136 83 Linux /dev/hda4 11380 155009 72389520 5 Extended /dev/hda5 11380 15443 2048224+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 15444 16486 525640+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 16487 17529 525640+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 17530 155009 69289888+ 83 Linux Ok, more possible irrevelant info but I am going to throw it out there just in case it is useful. I rebooted my machine that previously would not upgrade to find that I had a bad floppy disk. The machine would boot but not mount the nfs share. I ran md5sum on the floppy and found the checksum was wrong. At this point I remade the floppy and checked it with md5sum. All was now ok. I rebooted and once again the nfs share would not mount. No errors in the logs on the nfs server, nothing. So I decided to try entering the ipaddress of the server and it mounted. At this point the upgrade succeeded. What was the real problem here? Who knows for sure. At this point all I can say is my machine is happly running 7.3. I suppose we will never know for sure. Redhat installation support sent me here.
Even more possibly irrelevant info, but another data point
nonetheless:
P233MMX on DFI 586ITBD mobo, circa 1997, 128MB RAM.
Promise Ultra100 (20267 chip) card with 80G Maxtor drive on it, all
on-board ide slots are full.
Award V4.51-pg BIOS won't support large drives, no BIOS upgrade
available or likely.
CAVEAT: System may have hardware issue, it won't boot from the CD
drive even when asked nicely. Confirmed with three different
bootable CDs.
Redhat 7.1 installed without a hitch, with no special params, right
out of the box. It partitioned and formatted the Maxtor drive. It
recognizes the Maxtor drive as hde, boots and runs fine. Here's the
relevant section from /var/log/dmesg:
PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
PDC20267: chipset revision 2
PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI
Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x6800-0x6807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x6808-0x680f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
ide6: ESS ES1868 Plug and Play AudioDrive IDE interface
hda: ST32140A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC313000R, ATA DISK drive
hdc: FX4010M, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hde: Maxtor 4D080H4, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0x6400-0x6407,0x6502 on irq 10
hda: 4127760 sectors (2113 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA
hdb: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1582/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hde: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
CHS=158816/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdd: No disk in drive
hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
hde: [PTBL] [9964/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 >
That last line is where the 7.3 install freezes, but then all it
says is:
hde:(flashing cursor)
If I disconnect hde, the install loads normally. However, since
that is the only way to get 7.3 to boot, I can't use any of the 7.3
diagnostics on the problem drive.
Have similiar problem on HP Pavilion 6730 w/ 10GB HD lspci lists: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801AA ide (REV 02) Currently running RH72 great. Boots off RH73 CD1 and goes into anacoda. All goes well until you select "Upgrade an existing system" which then goes off and comes back saying that: You don't have any Linux partitions You can't upgrade this system Going to shell shows that there is only one drive in /tmp and that is hdc, so no parted or fdisk will reveal anything. When booted into 72 parted shows: --snip--- Warning: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is 1323/240/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 7559.999M. You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry before using this program. --snip--- Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-9768.383 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 6762.656 primary FAT boot, lba 2 6762.656 6792.187 primary ext3 3 6792.188 9634.570 primary ext3 4 9634.570 9767.460 extended lba 5 9634.601 9767.460 logical linux-swap --snip--- Also, if I select a workstation install (instead of an upgrade) and then select manual setup with disk druid... All the above partitions are there. Then if I go to shell, /tmp/hda is there and parted /tmp/hda shows the above information (except rather than Warning: it says Information:) If I go back to the GUI and backtrack to the installation type and press Upgrade it again does not find any partitions... To the shell reveals that /tmp/hda is not there again. These problems appear to be related to the IDE driver in the kernel. I would be curious of Red Hat Linux 8.0 or the more recent Phoebe Beta works better with these machines. Closing due to inactivity. If you have new information to add please reopen the issue report. |