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

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Tue Dec 12 06:22:57 UTC 2006


Sean Bruno wrote:
> 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
>
>   
have you ever run the RAID through the BIOS's?




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