PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: When doing an installation with a Ultra 3 Dual Channel Wide SCSI card, the installation halts and posts the following error message to the screen: "Loop disk labels do not support extended partitions." After receiving this error, the installation can no longer continue. SUGGESTED PRIORITY: 1 Server: ML350 ROM Date: 7/27/01 OS: RedHat 7.2 Beta 3 Roswell SCSI Controller: Ultra 3 Dual Channel Wide, Internal, Port 1 IS PROBLEM REPRODUCIBLE: yes STEPS TO CREATE THE PROBLEM: 1. Start a new installation with a SCSI card installed. Attach the internal SCSI cable to port 1 on the card. Use at least two hard drives. 2. On one hard drive, setup with the following configuration: a. /boot - 100MB b. /swap - 300MB c. / - Rest of HD 3. On the other HD, setup with the following: a. /hd01 - All 4. Once you select OK on the second HD partition, the "loop disk label" error will occur.
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This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax
is this reproducible? Please dd if=/dev/sdaX of=bs-sdaX count=1 bs=512 for each drive and send it in.
Is it possible that a raw device (like /dev/sda) was ever made a filesystem, like: mke2fs /dev/sda ? I've seen this happen before.
This can be closed. It turned out to be a hardware issue.