Bug 892621

Summary: Anaconda FC18-TC4 does not present BIOS RAID as available storage
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: anaconda-maint-list, awilliam, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, jreznik, robatino, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Last Closed: 2013-01-08 21:31:58 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jes Sorensen 2013-01-07 12:28:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
With the update to TC4, Anaconda does not present BIOS RAID storage.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Whatever is on Fedora-18-TC4-x86_64-netinst.iso

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
Been running tests on Fedora 17, was going to reinstall Fedora 18 to test
the same bug there. Pulled the TC4 image, but got nowhere :(

See attached tarball of logfiles - note I included the output of /proc/mdstat
which shows that the array is in fact assembled correctly.

This is a major regression!
Comment 1 Jes Sorensen 2013-01-07 12:31:02 UTC 
Created attachment 673983 [details]
log files from /tmp, including /proc/mdstat output
Comment 2 Jes Sorensen 2013-01-07 12:45:19 UTC 
Just to confirm this worked in the previous release, I ran the same test
with the TC3 image and it behaves as expected.
Comment 3 Jes Sorensen 2013-01-07 13:29:54 UTC 
Tested RC1 - it is equally broken
Comment 4 Jaroslav Reznik 2013-01-07 13:39:20 UTC 
Proposing as blocker: The installer must be able to create and install to software, hardware or BIOS RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5 partitions for anything except /boot 

Based on comment #2, it looks like a regression between TC3 and TC4.
Comment 5 David Lehman 2013-01-07 17:03:51 UTC 
I have a possible fix. To test it, add the following to your boot command line:

 updates=http://dlehman.fedorapeople.org/updates/updates-892621.0.img
Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2013-01-07 18:33:31 UTC 
Discussed at 2013-01-07 QA meeting acting as a blocker review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-01-07/fedora-qa.2013-01-07-16.01.log.txt . Accepted as a blocker per criterion cited in comment #4.
Comment 7 Jes Sorensen 2013-01-07 20:46:48 UTC 
Tested the update fix from comment #5. With that the BIOS RAID device shows
up under available storage.

I didn't continue with the install as I have data on the system I need for
testing right now, but I presume it will work.

Jes
Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2013-01-07 21:40:28 UTC 
Bug and fix confirmed on my system: without the updates.img I don't see my array available for install at all, with the updates.img it is available and I can successfully complete and boot an RC1 install. Please go ahead and apply for the next anaconda build.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-01-08 01:18:57 UTC 
anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-01-08 21:32:01 UTC 
anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.