Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 25097
Problem installing Red Hat 7... most likely RAID error
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:30:56 EDT
I'm installing RH7. Pentium 180, 64MB RAM. Setting up software raid on 3 drives. 2 primary IDE, 1.2 gig and 1.0 gig. 1 Secondary IDE, 1.2 gig. setup 64MB swap on hda, and 16MB /boot on hda. setup RAID-0 on hda, hdb, hdc for a total of something like 3 gig. Tried several different combinations of RAID setup. I get the exact same error no matter what I do after the last screen in the setup process. Here is the error: [BEGIN ERROR] Traceback (inntermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py",line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doinstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1469, in doinstall self.fstab.makeFilesystems () File "fstab.py", line 551, in makFilesystems self.createRaidTab("/tmp/raidtab",""/tmp",createDevices = 1) File "fstab.py", line 464, in createRaidTab isys.makeDevInode(device, devPrefix + '/' + device) File "isys.py", line 195, in makeDevInode return _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn) SystemError: (0, 'Error') [END ERROR] HELP!
What are the steps you took in the installer before getting this error?
Selected Custom system setup. Selected manually partition with disk druid. Set up 1 partition on each hard drive(total of 3). Set up RAID Device in disk druid. Selected various packages, added up to something like 550 MB. After clicking on 'next' in the final screen of install, before the packages are installed, the error appears on the screen.
I'm getting a similar problem (different error) and have tracked it down to the fact that when booting off the boot floppy (my computer won't boot off cd) the raidX modules are not being loaded. a cpio error is blown. I was able to get around it by saying "expert" instead of just hitting enter at syslinux prompt and then telling it to boot off local cd and not load any special drivers, etc. Then the raid modules are properly loaded and available. I even re-created the boot image and even loaded the update image you have and nothing worked until I tried the expert install. Why doesn't the network installation go into graphical mode, but booting off cd or local boot floppy will? Is there any way to create a raid array in the text installer?
I will try to duplicate this on a system here.
Is it possible you have a bad floppy? Could you try with a different one?
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