Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

[Sam Varshavchik]

Mikkel L. Ellertson writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> David Timms writes:
>> 
>>> On 06/28/2009 11:10 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>> 4) Anaconda sees neither the softraid partitions, nor the actual
>>>> underlying /dev/sd? devices at all.
>>> When you say softraid, you mean linux software raid, rather than bios
>>> raid or hardware raid ?
>> 
>> Yes. Linux softraid.
>> 
>>> Maybe it is related to:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#Kickstart_installations_cannot_reuse_existing_RAID_arrays
>>>
>> 
>> No. I am not doing a kickstart install.
>> 
>> And I succesfully updated two other machines with F10 installed on Linux
>> softraid, to F11.
>> 
>> Something in Anaconda is failing to see the second and the third drive
>> on a machine with the first drive being an IDE drive, and the 2nd and
>> the 3rd drive being SCSI drives. It doesn't see the drives, but I can
>> flip over to the ALT-F2 shell, and run mdadm --assemble --scan. mdadm
>> ends up creating /dev/md125, /dev/md126, and /dev/md127 (!), rather than
>> /dev/md[012], but I can mount them manually and see my existing F10
>> partitions.
>> 
>> So, Anaconda is not even assembling my existing RAID arrays. I can
>> assemble them manually, but Anaconda does not see them.
>> 
> 2 dumb questions:
> 1 - Does your BIOS see the drives?

See above. I can see the bloody drives just fine, from the shell on ALT-F2.

> 2 - Have you tried doing an expert install?

I can't find documentation on the expert installation option in F11's 
install documentation. Earlier Fedoras had an expert boot option, but it no 
longer seems to be present.

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