[my first reply to you bounced from the list as I sent it "from" CERN
instead of SLAC]
I just went to try turning off the RAID controller in the BIOS to see if
that would help but after going through all the options I remembered you
need to set a jumper to do that. I might just let it wipe out the
partition table, I'll copy the data I wanted to keep to another disk (the
one on the RAID controller) and then copy it back after the install.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Oleg Sadov wrote:
Looks like improperly configuration of multipath software-RAID. For
example, changed or not properly configured drivers, incorrect device
path or something else.
Simplest way for resolving of this problem -- disconnecting all
suspicious devices, installing system to something common disk drive
(IDE, SCSI or SATA) and then carefully set up your RAID-subsystem for
current version of system.
Of course, output of sysreport utility may be helpful for such problems
resolving.
--Oleg
Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
There was nothing there. It did look like something called mpath didn't
find any partitions. It ran after dmraid. I wonder if it is getting
confused due there being a RAID controller on the machine? I just submited
the same question to rhel5-users mailing list. I'll see if there are any
other answers there.
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Oleg Sadov wrote:
Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
Hi All,
Sorry for the off topic question but thought I might get an answer
quicker here. I'm trying to install RHEL5 on a machine (currently running
RHEL3) it has trouble reading the partition table somehow. I can read it
fine with fdisk after pushing ALT-F2 to get the shell up. Is there a limit
in the number of partitions anaconda understands? Here is the partition
table;
Standard limit for PC-like partition table -- 16 partitions (with
extended part-n).
May be you can find some useful messages at ALT-F3 or ALT-F4?
--Oleg
Disk /dev/hde: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 33 265041 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 34 4865 38813040 5 Extended
/dev/hde5 1107 4865 30194136 83 Linux
/dev/hde6 845 1106 2104515 83 Linux
/dev/hde7 34 582 4409779+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde8 583 713 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/hde9 714 844 1052226 82 Linux swap
Originally it was out of order but I fixed that and it still has the
problem. The message starts "partition table on device hda was unreadable"
(this device is hda during the installation), it wants you to create a new
partition table. I'd rather not as I want to keep some partitions after
the reinstall.
Any ideas?
regards,
Stephen.
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