Anaconda/Sata_Promise conflict?
Kevin H. Hobbs
hobbsk at ohiou.edu
Mon Jul 10 12:40:41 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:29 -0700, Jim Bevier wrote:
> I have 2 systems running Fedora Core. Each is a K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard
> with onboard PDC2037 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) controller chips. One system
> has a Athlon 64 3200+ processor and the other a 3400+. Each has two 160GB
> IDE primary (hda/hdb) drives. Also two 160GB IDE (PATA) drives connected to
> the promise controller in IDE mode as sda/sdb drives. Drive /dev/sdb on each
> system has two Linux primary partitions and a swap partition. On system 2
> (3400+), I have FC5 on hda6 and FC6T1 on hda8. FC5 & FC6 both have sdb1 &
> sdb2 mounted using fstab entries. FC5 was an upgrade from FC4 and FC6 was a
> new install. System 1 (3200+) has FC5 on hda6. I had to manually upgrade
> from FC4 because Anaconda fails when I select upgrade with an error saying
> it can not mount /sdb1. I tried the FC5 and respin FC5 cds with the same
> error. It would not put the abort dump info on a floppy no matter what I
> tried ether! That is another story. I tried FC6T1 and it gives an error
> right after I select "upgrade hda6" saying it could not mount sdb1 and says
> there might not be a file system on the partition. I deleted the sdb1
> partition and created a new one and created a new ext3 file system on it.
> Still the same error. From FC5 I can mount the partiton and read/write it
> with no problems. So why is Anaconda complaining? I can stop the error by
> removing the entries for sdb1 & sdb2 from the fstab file under FC5???
> System 2 is almost exactly the same and gives no error on upgrade selection
> with the fstab entries in place. What else can I try? What is at fault
> here? Any help to debug this would be appreciated.
>
I have the same controller, and saw the same issues with the parallel
interface on the serial controller. There was some discussion of this
before...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179369
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