F7 thinks I got SCSI disks.

Erik P. Olsen epodata at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 11:49:07 UTC 2007


Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:32 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> After having booted the F7 installation DVD and entered my language and keyboard 
>>   choices I get a warning box saying I got more than 15 partitions on /dev/sdb 
>> and that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel does not allow that.
> 
> <snip>
> Fedora 7 uses a new kernel hard drive interface that treats all hard
> drives as if they are SCSI.  I believe the new interface doesn't allow
> more than 15 partitions on a single device.  For more information, see:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-December/msg00474.html

Thanks, that explained a lot.

-- 
Ciao, Erik.




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