Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 246510
anaconda fails when creating a SW RAID device
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:45 EST
Description of problem: Installing RHEL5 on a system with two 500GB SATA HD's using the instructions found on pages 49-60 of the Deployment Guide fails. The bug that is identified buy the system is 10 pages long and I can not get it from the system to here w/o hand typing it. It says that multiple lines related to the .py code in the Anaconda system can not "identify the hard drive (or disk I can't remember). The system has 4GB of RAM is a 2GHZ Dual Core Intel on an Intel DQ965GF mother board. To get the install to start I have to use "linux all-generic-ide mem=2048mb pci=nommconf" The BIOS is set to legacy IDE. I have tried to get the HW RAID to work and oddly enough the problem is the same. In Disk Druid I follow the instructions for making a multiple md device (0 for /boot (RAID1) 1 for SWAP (RAID0) and 2 for / (RAID1). I then configure all the packages I want and the system looks at all of the dependencies that need to be installed. It says "I am ready and I need all 6 CDs to do this" and I say "no problem get started..." then BANG it fails with a picture of a bug on the screen and instructions to put the text here. After trying MANY different configs that all end in the same result I am left to conclude that you can ONLY install RHEL5 if you want the default LVM setup or if you want to install on /dev/hda ONLY. With the /dev/md2 deal it fails as badly as it does with the /dev/HWRAIDDEVSTRING that I can't remember. I'd sure like to know how to fix this or at least take my default /dev/hda install and mirror the whole disk to /dev/hdc. CAn you all walk me through this? I am will to pay for RHEL support for things that are my fault or particular to my job; however, I feel this one should be on you all since the install process does not work as advertised. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: VERY easily reproduced. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a Intel board in PC w/a Core Duo chip, 4GB of RAM and 2 SATA 500GB drives. 2. Run the install process 3. Make a /dev/mdX device and try to finish the install with it. Actual results: see above Expected results: A Bootable system with SW RAID'd HD's like the Deployment Guide says should work. Additional info: I can be reached at 571 283 5492.
NOTE: This issue seems to be relevant to Intel motherboards. I have returned it and have purchased an Asus w/an AMD 4600+ and all is well. The /dev/md# stuff from disk druid seems to work well.
At a minimum, please attach the python traceback to this bug report so we can see exactly where things are failing. If you have no other way of getting this information, attaching pictures of the screen is fine. You can find more information on reporting anaconda bugs at: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaBugReporting
Closing since hardware is no longer available for testing. Feel free to reopen this bug if you experience this problem again in the future.