From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: This is run under VM. A dasd mini-disk has been provided and all of the dasd drivers & modules are properly loading, but the installation script doesn't recognize this and fails. No hard drives have been found. You probably need to manually choose device drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select drivers now? An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): this is an problem with the redhat installation How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.provide a VM minidisk to linux image 2.run install process 3. Actual Results: Although the dasd drives and modules are loaded, the installation can't seem to recognize a DASD device as a proper medium to install onto. Expected Results: installation should have allow dasdfmt & mke2fs (or other filesystem types) to be formatted and used Additional info: I can provide the console log.
I've figured a way around this problem. If I manually, perform some linux function against the dasd device (dasdfmt, dd or mke2fs) then the anaconda installation will recognize that the device exist and says that it is of an improper format. However this will allow the process to continue, with the anaconda installation performing the dasdfmt & mke2fs properly. By the way, I'm using the text installation (python???). You can close this problem if you want to.
Did you pass any DASD= command line arguments in your parm file or rely on dasd autodetection?
I tried it both ways.
Did you format the minidisk in VM ? If so, with which program and parameters ? Or was this a reused minidisk, maybe in CMS format ? The installer ignores CMS formatted disks to avoid formatting the guests home disk or other writable system disks that happen to be in the DASD range you've provided in the .parm file.
If was a newly created CMS formatted mini-disk. I find that if I CMS format them then I don't have to do the dasdfmt & fdisk. But thanks for the resolution. Just one observation, the error message was not very helpful in identifying the problem/issue. Maybe a message a little more meaningful. thanks
We're string frozen and the error message is correct (there isn't a suitable device found). I've passed this on to be included in the docuementation, though.