From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: I had a similar problem installing RedHat 7.1. See Bugzilla #41790 The actions I took to resolv it then aren't working now. Here goes... I boot from the CD and go through the menus. When I get to the installation type I choose custom. Then, on the disk partitioning screen, I choose disk druid. When I pick next, I get a window popping up that says "The partition table on device SDA was unreadable. To create a new partition, it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive. Would you like to initialize this drive?" I click yes, and get the following pop-up: "Error opening /tmp/sda: No such device or address" Clicking <retry> doesn't help. I get identical behavior if I choose fdisk instead of disk druid. sda is the RAID 1 volume on a 3ware Escalade 6200 It was previously partitoned & formatted ext2 and fat32 by RedHat 7.1. Everything appeared to be working fine when I started the RH7.2 install. As I said, I had a similar problem installing 7.1, so I tried what I did there: 1. hit <ctrl><f2> to get to a command prompt 2. mknod sda 3. fdisk sda Now I can see the disk OK I tried deleting the partitions, no change. Then I rebooted and tried creating one big partition. Again, no change. If I boot from the 7.1 install CD, everything works fine. I can see sda properly without going into fdisk during the install. I have also tried expert mode install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attempt to install 2. 3. Actual Results: As described above Expected Results: Proper detection of sda, and continued install Additional info: Hardware Config: IWill KK266 AMD ThunderBird-C 1200 MHz 384 MB PC133 RAM 3ware Escalade 6200 IDE RAID controller 2x20 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM drives GeForce2 MX video Ensoniq 1371 based PCI sound card. Another IDE drive on hda (disk druid does find this with no problems) CD, CDRW, Zip on onboard IDE controllers.
Please see http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-131.html for more information on the update disk to fix this problem *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51214 ***
Ok, thanks. I'll try it. FWIW, I did search on 3ware before posting this, but didn't turn anything up (which is strange considering that I had posted a bug on 7.1 also). Eric