Description of problem: Fedora 7 will not install on my computer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7 I have performed a sha1sum on the DVD ISO and DVD itself. Both passed. THe media check inside of anaconda passes the DVD as acceptable. I have attempted this via upgrade from FC6, normal install, removing all partition via Knoppix then install. During the actual install, after I have performed the package selection, the installation fails. The error message indicates that it cannot find my hard disk. I am using a Sager 8890 laptop with a Promise RAID controller which has been disabled via a jumper. Earlier versions of Fedora see my drive as /dev/hde. Fedora 7 seems not to see it at all. How reproducible: See Description above. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 7 2. 3. Actual results: Failure Expected results: Success of installation Additional info: I originally received a message about a failure to remove the LVM partition on my drive, so I booted Knoppix and removed all partitions before re-trying the installation. I then received an error about created a Physical Volume (pvcreate). Thinking the bug was in the update of the LVM system, I re-tried the installed, choosing a standard ext3 filsystem, without any LVM. It failed finding the drive. As stated above, FC6 works just fine. In fact, I have re-installed FC6, and it's working just as before.
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Created attachment 156141 [details] Anaconda Log file Here is the log file from Anaconda. It looks more like a I/O error when trying to write to the disk. However, Anaconda 11.1.xx seems to work all right (FC6) every time--even after this error. In getting thi log file, Fedora 7 came back with the I/O error, but trashed my partition table this time. This is the first time (I believe) that it trashed the table before erroring out.
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This is either a hardware error or a driver error. Reassigning to kernel for the case of the latter.
Well, it's not a hardware error, as FC6 and earlier all work fine. I re-installed FC6 after the error with Fedora 7 with no issues at all.
What kind of disk controller and disks are attached?
They are attached to a Promise Ultra 100 RAID controller. While I currently have the RAID function turned off, the disks have been recognized by past versions of Fedora as /dev/hde and /dev/hdg. My current installation of FC6, sees the main disk as /dev/hde. HTH!
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I have since attempted to install Fedora 7 on a Dell Latitude D830. The installer doesn't even see my CD/DVD drive it loaded itself from.
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