upgrade f9->f10 with Promise pdc2027x hang forever

Farkas Levente lfarkas at lfarkas.org
Sat Nov 29 22:22:52 UTC 2008


hi,
i try to upgrade from f9->f10 the graphical installer simple hang (which
is imho a bug). when i start it in text mode i've got an error that it
can't find /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg and neither retry nor cancel help.
so currently on that machine it's not possible to upgrade.
while in the console the error:
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ERROR: Activating raid pdc_fbdiccjg failed:
       table: 0 0 linear /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg
       exception: size must be positive
CRITICAL: parted exception: Error:
       Could not start device /dev/mapper/pdc_fbdiccjg no such file or
directory
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the machine is an asus p4b533-e motherboard with promise pdc20276 fake raid
controller which is disabled in the bios and there is no disk on it, but the
kernel still find it. it has 2 pata disk with 2 partition which yield:
- md0 /boot
- md1 lvm vg (inside lv swap and /)
but as anaconda can't find the installed system i'm not able to upgrade.

with preupgrade failed beacuse can't find:
hd:UUID=a28359f7-e1e3-8e6c-7cea-f2167df41199
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# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8     0   78184008 sda
   8     1     104391 sda1
   8     2   78075900 sda2
   8    16   78184008 sdb
   8    17     104391 sdb1
   8    18   78075900 sdb2
   9     1   78075776 md1
 253     0   15335424 dm-0
 253     1    2097152 dm-1
 253     2   60620800 dm-2
   9     0     104320 md0
 253     3   60619772 dm-3
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      78075776 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>
# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/System/root        /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/md0                /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/System/swap        swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
# cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/System/root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/md0
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Upgrade to Fedora 10 (Cambridge)
	kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade
repo=hd:UUID=a310d15b-4a9b-44a0-a50c-6f025004e0b5:/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
stage2=http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img
ks=hd:UUID=a28359f7-e1e3-8e6c-7cea-f2167df41199:/upgrade/ks.cfg
	initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/System/root
	initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686.img
title Memtest86+ (2.01)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /memtest86+-2.01 ro root=/dev/System/root
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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"




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