From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.02 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Description of problem: Bug occurs in both graphical and text install environment. When preconfiguring partitions in partitionmagic (or any partitioner that is able to handle more than 15 partitions on a device) and installing fedora to a partition that should be availible (in my case 13 and 14) the installation errs out. The problem is based on a limitation of the /dev implementation, but since no data is written or accessed on /dev/hda16+ then the installation should be able to continue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD 2. Choose graphical or text login 3. Choose workstation setup * Error * Error mounting filesystem on /dev/sda16: No such file or address. 4. Manually partition with DiskDruid 5. Choose /boot to /dev/sda13 and / to /dev/sda14 (pre setup with partition magic in Windows) 6. Bootloader on /dev/sda1 (Grub) 7. DHCP for network address 8. No firewall 9. Selinux disabled 10. Timezone Europe/Oslo 11. Use default package selection 12. Check that you've got disc 1 and 2 (press continue) * Error * Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hda16 - Invalid argument.... * Error * Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hda17 - Invalid argument.... * Error * Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hda18 - Invalid argument.... Exception Occured An unhandled exception occured. This is most likely a bug... It goes on to ask me to include the traceback info, but I guess you can reproduce it yourself and write it down because my hand has already cramped. You could atleast put GMP on the text consoles to help with this. :/ Actual Results: Was given the option to debug or continue. When continuing I get a friendly message telling me I can reboot my computer. Expected Results: Packages should start copying right about this stage, shouldn't they? Additional info:
There's really not a good way to handle more than 15 partitions on a scsi disk with the way the kernel handles things.