Bug 65396

Summary: installer fails at start of installation - related to second drive?
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: George Clark <gclark>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.1   
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Description George Clark 2002-05-23 04:10:27 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461)

Description of problem:
after entering all options, and pressing 'continue' to begin the actual 
installation, an error msg dialog box appears that offers option to create a 
floppy and submit that to Bugzilla.
I'm attaching the resulting text file.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reboot computer with RH Binary CD 1 of 2 
2.select custom installation
3.
	

Additional info:

I had previously upgraded from 6.1 to 7.1 with only one 9GB SCSI drive.  Had 
some file space issues that I 'worked around' by deselecting a number of 
packages during the upgrade.

 I recently added a second SCSI hard drive. I partitioned it with fdisk and was 
able to format and mount all the partitions and copy directories and files 
between disks, so the disk seems OK.

My problem occured when I attempted to perform a new install (custom 
installation).  I've gone thru the same motions three times with the same 
failure each time.
Comment 1 George Clark 2002-05-23 04:12:26 UTC 
Created attachment 58264 [details]
Anaconda dump log
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-23 19:07:36 UTC 
Are you reformatting your partitions when you are doing this new install?
Comment 3 George Clark 2002-05-23 19:33:11 UTC 
Yes, after using Druid to set mount points, I checked all the partitions for 
formating on the following setup screen.

Since submitting the bug report, I tried disconnecting the second drive and 
managed a successful new install on just the original drive.  Next, I'm going 
to experiment with two drives again.
Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-29 16:50:10 UTC 
Do you happen to know if you are using the drive select feature of your IDE drives?
Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-15 16:47:14 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have additional information to
add to this report.
Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:57 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.