hi, i try to upgrade from f9->f10 the graphical installer simple hang (which is imho a bug). when i start it in text mode i've got an error that it can't find /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg and neither retry nor cancel help. so currently on that machine it's not possible to upgrade. while in the console the error: ------------------------------------------- ERROR: Activating raid pdc_fbdiccjg failed: table: 0 0 linear /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg exception: size must be positive CRITICAL: parted exception: Error: Could not start device /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg no such file or directory ------------------------------------------- the machine is an asus p4b533-e motherboard with promise pdc20276 fake raid controller which is disabled in the bios and there is no disk on it, but the kernel still find it. it has 2 pata disk with 2 partition which yield: - md0 /boot - md1 lvm vg (inside lv swap and /) but as anaconda can't find the installed system i'm not able to upgrade (preupgrade failed with the same problem).
a few more info about the system: ------------------------------------------- # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 78184008 sda 8 1 104391 sda1 8 2 78075900 sda2 8 16 78184008 sdb 8 17 104391 sdb1 8 18 78075900 sdb2 9 1 78075776 md1 253 0 15335424 dm-0 253 1 2097152 dm-1 253 2 60620800 dm-2 9 0 104320 md0 253 3 60619772 dm-3 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1] 78075776 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> # cat /etc/fstab /dev/System/root / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/System/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 # cat /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/System/root # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/md0 default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Upgrade to Fedora 10 (Cambridge) kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd:UUID=a310d15b-4a9b-44a0-a50c-6f025004e0b5:/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img ks=hd:UUID=a28359f7-e1e3-8e6c-7cea-f2167df41199:/upgrade/ks.cfg initrd /upgrade/initrd.img title Fedora (2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/System/root initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686.img title Memtest86+ (2.01) root (hd0,0) kernel /memtest86+-2.01 ro root=/dev/System/root
do you have the log file of your install? Please look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/BugReporting
no i don't just what i wrote down. ------------------------------------------- ERROR: Activating raid pdc_fbdiccjg failed: table: 0 0 linear /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg exception: size must be positive CRITICAL: parted exception: Error: Could not start device /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg no such file or directory ------------------------------------------- anyway i solved the problem give "nodmraid" option to the kernel option at install time.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 409931 ***