/dev/mapper and Anaconda install failures (FC6 x86_64)

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:02 +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Sean Bruno wrote:
> > I've been wrestling with anaconda this evening on my x86_64 machine.  It
> > seems that anaconda (or some other piece of the installer) is
> > forcing /dev/mapper to be created even when I have no RAID devices
> > enabled.
> >
> > I have cleared the 'fake' raid stuff off of my disks from rescue
> > mode(dmraid -E), but with 2 disks installed the installer insists on
> > trying to configure /dev/mapper/mpath0.
> >
> > I see each disk individually if I only have one SATA drive connected at
> > a time.  Which seems odd as heck to me, but I can install FC6 and at
> > least send you folks this email this way.
> >
> > Is there a 'nodmraid' option to the installer that I can pass to allow
> > me to see /dev/sda & /dev/sdb instead of the dmraid stuff?  What's even
> > stranger is that there appears to be a way to disable dmraid from the
> > GUI screen when you choose to 'remove all partitions', but the option is
> > greyed out?!?
> >
> > Any guidance would be appreciated.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> Does your mainboard have any RAID BIOS's loaded?
> Jump in to the BIOS and have a look at the SATA RAID stuff, DON'T CHANGE 
> IT.
> Please let us know what the setting is.
I have an Asus K8N-DL mobo that has two RAID controllers on it.  An
Nvidia and a Silicon Image.  I have both RAID controllers disabled at
this time.  Both of the SATA drives were connected to the Nvidia SATA
controller during this round of tests.

Sean