Bug 82711
| Summary: | installer can not handle multiple scsi CDROM drives | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <aewell> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:51:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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One thing just occured to me: I never tested the problem with all the cdrom drives fired up and the disks removed, except the install disk. The install may have been looking for files on the wrong disk. The update disk available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/80update.img includes a fix for this problem *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74719 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030124 Description of problem: Hi All, I have a Red Hat 7.0 server with eight (8) Toshiba XM6401 SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives, an AdvanSys ABP3980UA, 4 channel PCI SCSI-2 Controller, and an AMI MegaRAID Express 500 Controller. The CD-ROM drives are connected to two channels on the AdvanSys card. Hard drives are connected the AMI card. When I attempted to upgrade a Red Hat 7.0 server to Red Hat 8.0, I got the following message: Probing for mouse type: xxxx traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", Line 639 in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/bin/anaconda/iutil.py", Line 420 in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevInode (drive, "/dev/%s" % (drive,)) File "/usr/bin/anaconda/isys.py", line 265, in makeDevInode _isys,mkdevinode (name,fn) System Error: (2, 'no such file or directory') install exited abnormally In the process of troubleshooting, I replaced the AdvanSys card with a single channel Adaptec AHA-2940 card. As it is a single channel card and I have a tape drive on the bus, I had to reduce the CD-ROM drive count from seven to five. The symptom was identical. Now here is the catch. If I power off all but one of the CD-ROM drives, the install works. (I powering them back on after the install and they worked perfectly.) --Tony My configuration: MSI MS-6120 Dual Pentium II ATX Motherboard w/o SCSI Intel Pentium III 600E MHz (box) (qty=2) Matrox Millennium G400-AGP, 64-bit graphics board with 16 Meg SGRAM Toshiba XM6401 40X SCSI CD-ROM Drive (qty=8, Note: reduced to 6) AdvanSys ABP3980UA, 4 channel PCI SCSI-2 Controller Note: replaced with an Adapted AHA 2940 Viewsonic GS773, 17 " (16" viewable) Short Depth Monitor Teac 1.44 MB, 3= inch floppy disk drive Ecrix VXA-1, 50 pin SCSI Internal Tape Drive w/ White Bezel Ecrix VXA-1 Cleaning Tape Ecrix VXA-1 V6, 12/24 Data Cartridge (qty=15) AMI 4751010232A, MegaRAID Express 500 Fuji MAH3182MP, 7200 rpm, 18.2 GB SCSI-U2 Hard Drive (qty=4) Adaptec 1729600, 9 Connector 68 Pin Internal Ultra 160 SCSI Cable w/ Terminator Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical Antec SX1030 SOHO File Server case with two rear fansKingston KNE100TX 10/100 Ethernet Adapter (qty=2) 14' RJ45 Category 5 Patch Cable - Gray (qty=2) 6' RJ45 Category 5 Patch Cable - Gray (qty=2) Eicon Diva Lan ISDN Modem 310-262-05 Red Hat Linux V 7.0 Standard 6' VGA Extension Cable 6' ps/2 Extension Cable (Straight) (qty=2) 128 Meg PC-133 ECC SDRAM Memory Modules Innovative BP802512M, .16A, 80x25 Ball Bearing Fan with 4 pin Connector Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try installing it with 5 or more scsi2 cdrom drives 2. 3. Additional info: