Bug 57167 - insufficient device nodes when many partitions created
Summary: insufficient device nodes when many partitions created
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 12099
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-06 09:54 UTC by Richard Keech
Modified: 2013-07-03 13:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-12-06 09:54:19 UTC
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Description Richard Keech 2001-12-06 09:54:15 UTC 
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Description of problem:
It is possible to create more than 16 partitions on a single disk with Disk
Druid. 
However, anaconda does note take steps to ensure that sufficient device
nodes are
created.  When there are insufficent device nodes the system will not boot
because
e2label can't find the necessary fs labels.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. custom install
2. make more than sixteen partitions in disk druid	(on single disk)
3. boot
	

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-12-07 21:49:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12099 ***
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