Bug 185353 – anaconda does not install bootable system (dmraid, dell p470)

Bug 185353 - anaconda does not install bootable system (dmraid, dell p470)

Summary:	anaconda does not install bootable system (dmraid, dell p470)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	dmraid (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Heinz Mauelshagen
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Reported:	2006-03-13 17:45 EST by Bill Nottingham
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:58 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2007-06-27 08:04:52 EDT
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Description Bill Nottingham 2006-03-13 17:45:19 EST

Description of problem:

Dell Precision 470 workstation. Has BIOS RAID, intel chipset.

If you enable and create a RAID in the BIOS, dmraid/anaconda does not
see it, and offers to install on the drives themselves.

This configuration *does not boot*. First, grub halts at:

GRUB

If you reboot to rescue mode and run grub-install, it will
then die at:

GRUB loading, please wait.... Error 2

Oh, if you then 'delete' the RAID in the BIOS, you then get to reinstall. :/

Comment 1 Peter Jones 2006-03-14 02:11:06 EST

OK, so this sounds like grub was installed on hda, not on the raid device, but
the BIOS is using the raid device.

From IRC:
<notting> dmraid -ay always said 'no raid found'
<pjones> well, that'd be why it didn't work
<pjones> what bios?
<notting> bios or controller type?
<pjones> controller type
<notting> ich5

So I think that means we're not detecting ich5 correctly.

Metadata dumps from dmraid with the "isw" format would be helpful, but this is a
dmraid problem not an installer problem, so I'm reassigning it to that component.

Comment 2 Heinz Mauelshagen 2006-03-14 10:56:05 EST

Ich5 not supported yet.
Don't have access to respective metadata format specs.
If anyone has, please send them.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-03-14 13:27:52 EST

I asked Dell, they said it should be DDF.

Comment 4 Heinz Mauelshagen 2007-06-27 08:04:52 EDT

Closing because there's no evidence, that the issue reapeared since we support DDF.

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