Bug 64562

Summary: Installer dies when installing on drive with unconfigured raid partitions
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Nate Faerber <nfaerber>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Nate Faerber 2002-05-07 23:49:24 UTC
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Description of problem:
While attempting fresh install on a SCSI based system (w/ aic7899 onboard),
anaconda dies while preparing the filesystem for install.  I partition my drives
using fdisk as follows:

        simple_config1
        /dev/sda1  type=83
        /dev/sda2  type=82
        /dev/sda3  type=83
        /dev/sda4  type=fd

and then:
        simple_config2
        /dev/sda1  type=83
        /dev/sda2  type=82
        /dev/sda3  type=83
        /dev/sda4  extended
        /dev/sda5  type=fd

and then assign them as follows:

        /dev/sda1  type=83  /boot  ext3 format=yes
        /dev/sda2  type=82  Linux swap
        /dev/sda3  type=83  /      ext3 format=yes
on both configs while leaving sda4 and/or sda5 alone.

I then select my packages and begin install but anaconda dies either shortly
after or during the formats of /dev/sda1-3

I have 2 anacdumps for each config.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fdisk configure partitions as shown above
2. assign mount points as shown above
3. start installation of packages
	

Actual Results:  Anacond dumped and requests reboot (dumps attached)

Expected Results:  Installation should have proceeded to completeness.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Nate Faerber 2002-05-07 23:50:18 UTC
Created attachment 56584 [details]
Anaconda dump from install of simple_config1

Comment 2 Nate Faerber 2002-05-07 23:51:31 UTC
Created attachment 56585 [details]
Anaconda dump from install of simple_config2

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-09 18:44:17 UTC
Why is there just one partition of type 0xfd?

Comment 4 Nate Faerber 2002-05-09 18:56:19 UTC
There is only one partition of type 0xfd in order to show the problem in the
simplest form.  We first discovered the problem while setting up 6 drives.  Each
drive had 6 partitions of type 0xfd, but we didn't configure them in Anaconda
because we have our own benchmarking scripts to do that afterwards.  I tested
several variations and they all died if you had an unconfigured 0xfd partition.
 I finally set all the partitions to typ 0x83 then after the install, changed
them all back to 0xfd.  I would like it to work the first way though.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-09 18:58:10 UTC
Ok thank you I understand now. I will forward this issue to a developer.


Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2002-05-10 22:34:52 UTC
Can you try using the update disk available at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/73raid.img?  If you put that on a separate
floppy and boot with 'linux updates', inserting the disk when prompted, it
should fix the problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64734 ***