From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have an HTP370 hardware RAID controller. I downloaded the appropriate driver and boot disk (created them) I have 40 Gbs total, of which 4 Gb un-allocated. When I use "automatic partitioning", option "use free disk space" it says "cannot allocate partitions" and exits with a bug summary. Disk druid does the same after manually allocating 32 megs to '/boot', 512 megs to 'swap' and the rest to '/' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from the HPT370 RAID boot disk 2. Use the 'linux dd' option and load the additional drivers 3. Try to make Linux use the free disk space for install Actual Results: I got the error message "Cannot allocate partitions" and a bug trace. Expected Results: It should have built the swap, boot and root partitions and continued installing. Additional info: Hardware for RAID: HTP370 controller on motherboard (A-bit K7 RAID) 2 x Seagate Barracuda 20 Gb HDD RAID 0 (striping) Divided into: -4,9 Gb NTFS (For Windows 2k) -14,6 Gb NTFS -14,6 Gb FAT32 -the rest is unpartitioned I read somewhere that for the '/boot' partition, you should use the first 1024 cylinders, especially with some older BIOS versions, which can only use these first 1024 cylinders. However, my BIOS isn't more than 2 years old (which was the approximate age in 'older'). Also, I really wish to retain the current partitions, including its data :-)
Created attachment 45281 [details] logfile that came with the crash
Where did you get the HPT boot image?
From the official HPT website, http://www.highpoint-tech.com then to http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm Where I found the download for Red Hat driver version 1.3 (Which is the latest) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/RedHat_v13_370_372.zip
This is due to not having enough unpartioned space for the installer to use for installing in and then not reviewing the partitioning. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58616 ***