Description of problem: Installer fails with a traceback on Nvidia nForce4 configured in RAID5 mode. dmesg has the following interesting details: device-mapper: table 253:0 raid45: unknown type device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to device Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fc6 pxeboot image How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure nForce4 in RAID5 2. Attempt to install Fedora Core 6 3. Actual results: traceback, and the above messages in dmesg Expected results: raid activated and installation started. or at least not a traceback only because it failed to activate a raid. Additional info:
Some hardware details: Motherboard: Asus M2N-VM DH CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 430 3 harddrives configured for RAID5 in the NVIDIA Mediashield BIOS setup screen.
Have digged around a little, and it seems the raid45 device mapper module is not yet in the main kernel or in the Fedora kernel. Apparently available as a patch from Heinz Mauelshagen, Red Hat GmbH (see the URL). So there is two issues here. a) That anaconda unconditionally fails with a traceback if a NVidia RAID5 setup is encountered, or quite likely if any dmraid related disk setup fails to start up. Should still work to install on other devices in the same system, but currently impossible due to Anaconda crashing while detecting the dmraid "hardware"... b) That the raid45 module is not in the Fedora kernel making this kinds of raid not work.. The primary issue is the first I think as it makes it impossible to install even if one does not plan to install on the RAID:ed drives. The missing raid45 module is not that criticial, it just means this software raid is not yet supported by Fedora. If you want me to test things then I can play with this system for yet another week. After that I need to bring it into production and testing the NVIDIA raid support or lack thereof won't be that easy.
You can still install, by specifying 'nodmraid' on the boot command line, but likely the system won't boot until you disable raid in the bis, as the disk geometry will be different than what bios currently believes it should be. 'a' should be fixed in rawhide; if it sees a raid device we can't handle, it basically just ignores it. This is suboptimal, but it's our only real choice.
Excellent. 'a' was my main concern. I'll give rawhide a try in a few days and report back. The specific system has both raided and non-raid drives btw.