From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Sorry for my poor english. My configuration. hda partition : Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 21 10552+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 22 8343 4194288 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 8344 38981 15441552 83 Linux /dev/hda4 38982 39507 265104 82 Linux swap hde partition : Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 51 25672+ 83 Linux /dev/hde2 52 312 131544 82 Linux swap /dev/hde3 313 6588 3163104 fd Linux raid autodetect hdg partition : Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 51 25672+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg2 52 312 131544 82 Linux swap /dev/hdg3 313 6588 3163104 fd Linux raid autodetect Raid partition : # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid0 hdg3[0] hde3[1] 6326016 blocks 64k chunks # /dev/md0 have a ext3 file system formated with RH8.0. There is a bad detection of raid device (software /dev/md0). During the installation, disk druid don't detect the ext3 file system in /dev/md0. Disk Druid give the "foreign" type and not "ext3". If you don't recreate the md0 device you can't format /dev/md0 and the installation abort with : Error : An error accured trying to format md0. This problem is serious, and the install cannot continue. Other message from another console : mke2fs : Device size reported to be zero. Invalide partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being buzy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Phoebe in a system with a raid device (software) 2. Run manual partition with Disk Druid Actual Results: Disk Druid don't detect the ext3 file system. Expected Results: Disk Druid should detect the ext3 file system. Additional info: Here is some kernel message that can help (perhaps there is some mistake !). <6> [events : 00000011] <3> md: could not lock hdc3, zero-size ? Marking faulty. <4> md: could not import hdc3, trying to run array nevertheless. <6> [events : 9e9c14ca] <3> md: invalid raid superblock magic on hda3 <4> md: hda3 has invalid sb, not importing ! <4> md: could not import hda3, trying to run array nevertheless. <6> md: autorun ... <6> md: considering hde3 ... <6> md: add hde3 <6> md: created md0 <6> md: bind <hde3,1> <6> md: running : <hde3> <6> md: hde3's event counter : 00000011 <4> md: device name has changed from hdc3 to hde3 since last import ! <4> md0: former device hda3 is unavailable, removing from array ! <6> md0: max total readahead window set to 512 k <6> md0: 2 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk : 256 k <3> md: md0, array needs 2 disks, has 1, aborting. <4> raid0: disks are not ordored, aborting! <3> md: pers->run() failed ... <4> md: do_md_run() returned _22 <6> md: md0 stopped <6> md: unbind <hde3,0> <6> md: export_rdev(hde3) <6> md: ... autorun DONE.
I also have some problems with RH8.0 and raid device but don't invertigate.
I do one install with hard disk mode (text mode) and don't see this bug.
I saw the same behavior where phoebe was unable to correctly detect my raid0 partition. I wasn't installing on it though as i had /dev/hda6 free for this. But that's only after a kernel recompilation that i could access my data on /dev/md0, before it kept telling me that it wasn't an ext3 fs. Here's my partitionning : Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 3 24066 83 Linux /dev/hda2 * 4 258 2048287+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda3 259 5994 46074420 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda4 5995 7299 10482412+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 5995 6504 4096543+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 6505 7014 4096543+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 7015 7299 2289231 83 Linux Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 8126 4095472+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 8127 8938 409248 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc3 8939 100366 46079712 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc4 100367 116336 8048880 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 100367 109509 4608040+ 83 Linux
Never see this bug again. Close it.