From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: Hi, I am installing RH-8 on a Wipro Netpower computer which has an Adaptec AIC-7889 (v 2.57) and AMI MegaRAID 40-LD (v 3.11). While installation anaconda reaches till partition stage and says that the partition table in sda is inconsistant and it needs to recreate it. I said OK and proceeded to Disk Druid and here anaconda bombs with the attached trace. Next time I tried to partition with fdisk. fdisk was able to partition the disk, but after exiting from fdisk anaconda again complainted that the partition table is bad, with same results. I have attached the full dump. raj
Created attachment 90880 [details] Anaconda Dump
more info, I installed debian (woody) in that system from the second CD. The issue seems to be more like a kernel one. The stock debian kernel works fine, but when I tried to put my own 2.4.20 in that the kernel panicked 'coz it could not find mount the root. Just before that it gave an error on the lines that partition table in sda is inconsistant, similar to the one given by anaconda. I will be investigating more about this and will post the details here! raj
Hi, Some more updates... I tried debian on that system and it (woody) installed fine. That system was going to be a pptp server, and to put in mppe I had to compile the kernel. I d/l the latest 2.4 compiled with megaraid and aic7xxx driver. but that refused to boot with the same error as the RH installer. At this point I got more interested and got the debian 2.4 kernel, and the results were same. no boot. So I got the 2.2.25 and compiled, and it worked fine!! So this is not to do with the anaconda but with the kernel. That particular device does not seems to work with 2.4 but works fine with 2.2. Usually it happenes the other way round. raj
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