Created attachment 707122 [details] logs and traceback of the installation session Description of problem: Anaconda crashes with "cannot initialize a disk that has partitions" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F18 GA How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install on a system with DDF-based BIOS RAID (e.g. Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100S3) 2. There is already a Linux installation on the disks Actual results: Fedora discovers the DDF RAID arrays and offers them for installation. After clicking "Let me customize the partitioning" and "Continue", the Manual partitioning dialog appears without displaying the exisiting partitions. A few seconds later a popup "unknown error" appears. Expected results: No error Additional info: Anaconda logs are appended.
Note: This might be related to kpartx delimiter. It looks like we find and assemble the fwraid array but the partitions don't get added, probably due to something like an exception raised by PartitionDevice constructor.
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