Bug 64624

Summary: Installation fails with Reiserfs and RAID
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <paul.brett>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Need Real Name 2002-05-08 19:33:22 UTC
Description of problem:
Attempt to upgrade Redhat 7.1 system with reiserfs on software RAID fails with 
error message 'You dont have any Linux partitions.  You cant upgrade this 
system'.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow standard CD ROM based install
	

Actual Results:  You dont have any Linux partitions.  You cant upgrade this 
system

Expected Results:  Upgrade completed.

Additional info:

Contents of /etc/fstab are:

/dev/cdrom		/mnt/cdrom		iso9660   noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0		/mnt/floppy		auto	  noauto,owner	  0 0
/dev/hdd1		/u01			ext3	  defaults	  1 2
none			/proc			proc	  defaults	  0 0
none			/dev/pts		devpts	  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hdc9		swap			swap	  defaults,pri=1  0 0
/dev/hdd9		swap			swap	  defaults,pri=1  0 0
/dev/hda6		/mnt/old_win		vfat	  defaults	  0 0
/dev/md1		/boot			reiserfs  notail	  1 2
/dev/md2		/			reiserfs  notail	  1 2
/dev/md3		/usr			reiserfs  notail	  1 2
/dev/hda7		/usr/src		reiserfs  notail	  2 3
/dev/md4		/home			reiserfs  notail	  1 2
/dev/md5		/var			reiserfs  notail	  1 2
/dev/hda5		/var/www		reiserfs  notail	  2 3
/dev/hda2		/var/spool/wwwoffle	reiserfs  notail	  2 3
tmpfs			/tmp			tmpfs	  size=200M	   0 0
tmpfs			/var/tmp		tmpfs	  size=300M	   0 0
tmpfs			/dev/shm		tmpfs	  defaults	  0 0
/dev/cdrom1		/mnt/cdrom1		iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 
0


Contents of /etc/raidtab are:

########################################################################
#
# /boot - /dev/md1
#
raiddev                 /dev/md1
raid-level              1
nr-raid-disks           2
chunk-size              32
nr-spare-disks          0
persistent-superblock   1
device                  /dev/hda1
raid-disk               0
device                  /dev/hdc1
raid-disk             1

########################################################################
#
# / - /dev/md2
#
raiddev                 /dev/md2
raid-level              1
nr-raid-disks           2
chunk-size              32
nr-spare-disks          0
persistent-superblock   1
device                  /dev/hdc5
raid-disk               0
device                  /dev/hdd5
raid-disk               1

########################################################################
#
# /usr - /dev/md3
#
raiddev                 /dev/md3
raid-level              1
nr-raid-disks           2
chunk-size              32
nr-spare-disks          0
persistent-superblock   1
device                  /dev/hdc7
raid-disk               0
device                  /dev/hdd7
raid-disk               1

########################################################################
#
# /home - /dev/md4
#
raiddev                 /dev/md4
raid-level              1
nr-raid-disks           2
chunk-size              32
nr-spare-disks          0
persistent-superblock   1
device                  /dev/hdc6
raid-disk               0
device                  /dev/hdd6
raid-disk               1

########################################################################
#
# /var - /dev/md5
#
raiddev                 /dev/md5
raid-level              1
nr-raid-disks           2
chunk-size              32
nr-spare-disks          0
persistent-superblock   1
device                  /dev/hdc8
raid-disk               0
device                  /dev/hdd8
raid-disk               1

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-05-08 23:17:26 UTC
Reiserfs isn't supported, but this should work as of Red Hat Linux 7.3