Bug 66564 - Can't install redhat73 on computer with 16 IDE drives
Summary: Can't install redhat73 on computer with 16 IDE drives
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
URL: http://karlsbakk.net/bugs/redhat-7.3-...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-06-12 10:08 UTC by Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-10 07:11:16 UTC
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Description Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk 2002-06-12 10:08:28 UTC 
Description of Problem:  
  
Can't install redhat on computer with 4 IDE controllers, each with 2 channels,  
each channel with 2 drives (16 drives totally). After selecting two (or three)  
drives as / filesystem on raid-1, selecting ext3 as the fs for /dev/md0, the 
formatting starts, ends, and anaconda fails.  
  
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  
  
  
How Reproducible:  
Every time I've tried to install 
  
Steps to Reproduce:  
1.  Start up computer with either netboot floppy or cdrom 
2.  choose two or more partitions as md0, raid-1, and ok 
3.  start formatting as ext3 and anaconda fails 
  
Actual Results:  
boom 
  
Expected Results:  
successful installation 
  
Additional Information:  
see http://karlsbakk.net/bugs/redhat-7.3-install-bug.txt.gz for the anaconda 
bug report
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-12 14:40:22 UTC 
Do you have any partitions marked as software RAID components which aren't a
part of a software raid device?
Comment 2 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk 2002-06-13 08:17:22 UTC 
I have. Will try without it right now.
Comment 3 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk 2002-06-13 08:29:40 UTC 
It works with just hda1 and hdb1 as RAID devices. But. Installing with hdc1 as 
part of the RAID-1 makes the installer add another 'windows or os/2' line to 
lilo/grub.
Comment 4 Mike McLean 2003-01-02 18:47:10 UTC 
This bug has been inappropriately marked MODIFIED. Please review the bug life
cycle information at 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/bug_status.cgi

Changing bug status to ASSIGNED.
Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-10 07:11:16 UTC 
This is fixed in our current release (dupe of another, don't remember the bug id
offhand)
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