Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98061
Bad Blocks detected causes Install to halt
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: This is similiar to Bugs numbered 89174 and 87947. These are closed. And unfortunately, the solution giving was don't check for bad blocks and they are going to remove this option in later versions. But this option works fine in 7.3 and 8.0 on the same system, so something was changed in 9.0 (see #2) Please don't remove this option in later releases! I would have just re-opened them, but here is why i prefer making a new bug. 1. Tech support technician suggested 2. This problem DOES NOT EXIST in 7.3, or 8.0! I've reformatted this machine probably 15 times with different versions of redhat, different configurations, etc., including taking certian hard disks out, only installing with one, etc. 3. Only occurs if you have more then one hard disk, and you check for bad blocks on at least 2 of them. If you have 3 hard disks, but only put partitions on one disk, you can check for bad blocks and it installs fine. Please, don't take the bad blocks check out of the new release, and please put the option to use fdisk back in anaconda like in 8.0. :) 8.0 seemed to work fine for this part. :) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 9.0 on a multidisk system 2. Run bad block check on at least 2 disks 3. Actual Results: Detects bad blocks, requires a reboot, will not finish install. But bad blocks are not detected if you install withouth checking and check later, AND bad blocks are not detected with a Redhat 7.3 or 8.0 install. Expected Results: if there are bad blocks, let us now. If not, finish the install. Additional info: Please don't remove this option. And it would be nice if you could put back the fdisk option that was in 8.0. Thanks.
The fdisk and badblocks options were removing because they were determined to be not necessary (lack of overall customer interest) and because we have disk druid and parted. fdisk is still available on VC2 if you need it. However if there is a bug in disk druid or parted that prevents you from using them please report it so we can make them work in that case.