From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 Description of problem: The dump is attached. This occurs in the graphical RH setup just after package selection, when we are about to format the disks Nonclassical things I do/have/did: - Two IDE drives /dev/hde and /dev/hdg in software RAID-1 configuration - Boot device is going to be /dev/md1 NOT /dev/md0 (is this a sin?), with LILO - Tried to modify the root password after having set it (with 'back' and that didn't work, incidentally) - Drink lots of green tea and eat bananas while waiting for installer to finish How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up RH 9 2. Get to after the point where package info was entered 3. Bampf! Actual Results: Bad things Expected Results: Good things
Created attachment 93154 [details] Anaconda dump file
Uh oh! Something must have gone wrong with the assignation of the md devices? I restarted the setup process and there are md devices md3 md7 md8 md5 md4 md1 md6 md1 md0 md2 I was sure I had them set to md1 md2 md3 md5 md6 md7 md8 md9 md10 md11 md12 md13 The idea was to reflect the structure of the underlying hde/hdg partitions. I will be reasonable now and count from 0 and not do jumps in the md series.
Did you have preexising RAID devices on the system before you reinstalled?
The system had a RH 8.0 installation but the two disks were not in a RAID setup. I decided to scratch everything, but keep the partitioning of the disks (it was exactly alike on both disks). So I just marked them as 'software raid' then paired them into mirrors in disk druid: md1 = hde1 + hdg1 (primary, will hold /boot) md2 = hde2 + hdg2 (primary, will hold /) md3 = hde3 + hdg3 (primary, will hold <swap>) md5 = hde5 + hdg5 (secondary, will hold /tmp) md6 = hde6 + hdg6 (secondary, will hold /home) md7 = hde7 + hdg7 ...etc... md8 = hde8 + hdg8 md9 = hde8 + hdg9 md10 = hde10 + hdg10 md11 = hde11 + hdg11 md12 = hde12 + hdg12 md13 = hde13 + hdg13
This looks like it should be working better in our current releases.