From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-3 i586) Description of problem: Software-Raid WILL NOT INSTALL (RedHat 7.3)--but works on RedHat-7.1 and 7.2) Install is through NFS-(boot option is...linux dd...using driver-disk) Using AMD-XP processor (1500 mhz)-266 mhz bus + ddr-ram, 4-to-6 hard-drives Pre-formatted drives don't work...unformatted drives don't work CRASH occurs ...during-or-just-after-ANACONDA formats the partitions Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. BOOT remote machine via NFS boot-disk-(at LINUX-BOOT-PROMPT---> type...linux dd...) then...choose ANY OF THE FOLLOWING... 2a. drives can be PRE-FORMATTED-RAID-(on another machuine)...using fdisk-or-(sfdisk---> partition type=fd) 2b. ...or...drives can be pre-formatted-EXT2fs -(on another machuine)....using fdisk-or-sfdisk 2c. choose to MANUALLY PARTITION with disk-druid ...or...choose to MANUALLY PARTITION with fdisk... 2d. choose your RAID PARTITIONS (including BOOT=raid-1) Actual Results: The installer then formats the drives as usual--but suddenly CRASHES (error message)---> TypeError: unpack non-sequence Expected Results: ...you know....... Additional info: I have a big-fat... ANACDUMP.TXT ...file, but I'm not sure I know how to include it with THIS FORM AS AN ATTATCHMENT ...please let me know if i am doing something stupid---or if it really is a bug... I believe I have TRIED ALL THE POSSIBILITIES ( more than it appears to be here...), and will use any-cheap-hack to get throught this...
Created attachment 72544 [details] anaconda's dump-to-floppy
Try using the update disk available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/73raid.img? If you put that on a separate floppy and boot with 'linux updates', inserting the disk when prompted, it should fix the problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64734 ***