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

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Tue Dec 12 09:59:37 UTC 2006


Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 16:32 +0800, Hadders wrote:
>   
>> Sean Bruno wrote:
>>     
>>>> I assume you're talking about having problems with Software RAID in FC6?
>>>>
>>>> H
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes.  I wish I could get to the point of 'having problems' with Software
>>> Raid.  I can't seem to get anaconda to _not see_ the fake raid device
>>> and just pretend /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are just disk.
>>>
>>> On a related note, _if_ I do try to use the fake raid devices, i.e.
>>> configure the drives for RAID 1 in the BIOS and use the /dev/mapper
>>> device, the installer will fail after creating the file systems with
>>> some kind of lvm error:
>>>
>>>
>>> 19:32:02 DEBUG   : Member: binutils.x86_64 0-2.17.50.0.3-6 - u
>>> 19:32:02 DEBUG   : Adding Package binutils - 2.17.50.0.3-6.x86_64 in mode u
>>> 19:32:02 DEBUG   : Member: m4.x86_64 0-1.4.5-3 - u
>>> 19:32:02 DEBUG   : Adding Package m4 - 1.4.5-3.x86_64 in mode u
>>>
>>>
>>> /tmp/lvmout:
>>>     Finding all logical volumes
>>>   No volume groups found
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> any reason why you're using logical volume management?
>> Have you booted up in rescue mode, what does "dmraid -s -g" say about 
>> the RAID containers and subsets?
>>
>>     
> LVM is setup by default as far as I can tell.  I wouldn't have used it
> at all except I wanted to change as little as possible from the default
> install as I seem to be running into a problem.
>
> dmraid shows no raidsets at all.
>
> dmraid -d -g
> No RAID disks
>
>
> Sean
>
>   
That was "S" "G", dmraid -s -g

Hmm, still no RAID sets... okay.   I can suggest you try no LVM and see 
what "custom layout" says

H




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