Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

[Terry Barnaby]

On 06/30/2009 01:07 AM, Andrew Parker wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik<mrsam at courier-mta.com>  wrote:
>> Anaconda is barfing when I try to upgrade my existing F10. The machine has
>> an IDE drive that contains a single Windows partitions, and two SCSI drives,
>> hanging off an Adaptec 29320 HBA, with F10 on both drives in a RAID-1
>> configuration.
>>
>> When Anaconda gets to the "checking storage" phase, it spins for a while,
>> then proceeds immediately to do a new install.
>>
>> The partitioning screen has only /dev/sda listed, which is the existing
>> Windows partition. /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, the two SCSI drives, are not
>> shown. HOWEVER:
>>
>> When I flip over to ALT-F2, "fdisk /dev/sdb" and "fdisk /dev/sdc" read the
>> partition table of the two SCSI drives. So, what I have is:
>>
>> 1) The kernel sees the SCSI drives
>>
>> 2) On some other ALT-F screen I see all the soothing messages from the md
>> subsystem concerning registering various md personalities.
>>
>> However,
>>
>> 3) mdadm isn't running
>>
>> 4) Anaconda sees neither the softraid partitions, nor the actual underlying
>> /dev/sd? devices at all.
>>
>
> You may want to bugzilla this.  Anaconda had all sorts of storage
> changes during f11 and had numerous problems.  I believe it was (one
> of?) the reasons that F11 slipped.  A few days before the f11 release
> anaconda was trying to resize one of my partitions that wasn't even
> being used in the install.
>
I had a major problem with installing on a system with Raid partitions as well,
due to my use of a kickstart install. This is noted in the Install notes
I know.

Will a "fixed" anaconda package be release soon to fix these issues so we can
roll our own "fixed" F11 ?