Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 06/30/2009 01:07 AM, Andrew Parker wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Sam Varshavchikmr...@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

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Sam Varshavchik wrote: See above. I can see the bloody drives just fine, from the shell on ALT-F2. Probably something different, but with an older Fedora (5?) I discovered that anaconda refuses to run RAID-1 arrays if they are in degraded mode. In my case I had a 5 disk RAID-1 root partition

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 15:02:04 +0200, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Anaconda refused to detect the degraded array. 4 disk in RAID-1 is not exactly degraded, I would say... :-) I had to grow the array from 5 disks to 4. Degraded means that all of the array elements aren't

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Roberto Ragusa
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 15:02:04 +0200, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Anaconda refused to detect the degraded array. 4 disk in RAID-1 is not exactly degraded, I would say... :-) I had to grow the array from 5 disks to 4. Degraded means that all of the

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 17:27:58 +0200, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it wrote: Ok, I know that, but I suppose that the refusal to upgrade on a degraded array would be do not do something dangerous when the array is not really in good conditions and then a (debatable) assumption that 4

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
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.

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-29 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bill Davidsen 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

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew Parker
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Sam Varshavchikmr...@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

Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
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

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread David Timms
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 ? Maybe it is related to:

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
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

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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 ?

Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

2009-06-27 Thread 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