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Bug 247303

Summary: BUG: biosdisk installs broken in some scenarios when unique disk signature dont exist
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Sandeep K. Shandilya <sandeep_k_shandilya>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: 4.5CC: jfeeney, poelstra, wwlinuxengineering
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0816 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-11-15 16:36:24 UTC Type: ---
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backport from rhel5 to fix this issue. none

Description Sandeep K. Shandilya 2007-07-06 19:06:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
biosdisks install broken when we have 3 disks (bios disk 80,81,82) we want to
install to disk 80 from the hard disk we have ks=bd:80p1:/ks.cfg in command line
and in the ks.cfg we have the line
harddrive --biospart=80p1 --dir=/
and only disk80 has a valid signature. the other 2 disks have zero signatures
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-10.1.1.63

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. on a system with 3 disks, write a signature on the first disk (that will be
disk80) then dd the mbr of the other disks with zero.
2. begin a ks install from hard disk with the lines in ks.cfg targetting disk80
3.
  
Actual results:
we get a message cannot find biosdisk 80 and the install aborts.

Expected results:
The install should continue because we a match signature match for the disk80

Additional info:
I have attached a probable patch to fix this issue. It is a back port from rhel 5.
Comment 1 Sandeep K. Shandilya 2007-07-06 19:06:50 UTC 
Created attachment 158694 [details]
backport from rhel5 to fix this issue.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-08-09 15:56:01 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 4 Charles Rose 2007-08-20 11:00:17 UTC 
Dell can test this fix when the RHEL4.6 code is available.
Comment 5 Dave Cantrell 2007-08-21 21:50:19 UTC 
Adding devel-ack based on patch in comment #1.
Comment 6 Larry Troan 2007-08-30 13:40:13 UTC 
Per Dell call on 8/30, they will test. Setting OtherQA.
Comment 11 Sandeep K. Shandilya 2007-09-13 11:41:44 UTC 
reply to comment #6
Larry, which version of anaconda will have this patch?
anaconda version 10.1.1.69 does not have this patch.
Comment 12 srinivas 2007-09-26 15:33:35 UTC 
This issue is not fixed. The patch hasn't seemed to have made it for RHEL 4.6
anaconda ( 10.1.1.69).
Comment 13 Dave Cantrell 2007-10-02 13:56:24 UTC 
The patch for this fix is in anaconda-10.1.1.70 and later, which should make it
in to the next snapshot.
Comment 16 Brock Organ 2007-10-25 15:43:36 UTC 
Hi, has this issue been solved with the latest 4.6 snapshot?

Regards,

Brock
Comment 17 Sandeep K. Shandilya 2007-10-26 11:02:00 UTC 
Yes this issue has been solved with the latest 4.6 snapshot.
Comment 18 Brock Organ 2007-10-26 15:00:06 UTC 
ok, thanks for the feedback ... :)
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-15 16:36:24 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0816.html