Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66564
Can't install redhat73 on computer with 16 IDE drives
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
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
Do you have any partitions marked as software RAID components which aren't a part of a software raid device?
I have. Will try without it right now.
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.
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.
This is fixed in our current release (dupe of another, don't remember the bug id offhand)