[Bug 328038] New: partitioner confused by device mapper
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038 Summary: partitioner confused by device mapper Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: RC 1 Platform: PC OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mrmazda@ij.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: hare@novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=174489) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=174489) y2logs.tgz I tried to test factory rc2 mirror state as described in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218122#c18. When I reached custom partitioning, instead of the 29 partitions on PATA disk 1, only two items were listed: /dev/sda used by RAID hpt37x_ccedfbhiib, and /dev/mapper/hpt37x_ccedfbhiib. The i845G system has neither hpt raid nor sata. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c1
--- Comment #1 from Felix Miata
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038
Andreas Jaeger
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c2
Hannes Reinecke
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c3
Thomas Fehr
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=328038#c4
--- Comment #4 from Felix Miata
The raid detection by dmraid is purely based on metadata parsing on disk (since linux has no access to BIOS functionality) so a mis-detection cannot be easily prevented. If you current controller does not support BIOS RAID capabilty, it seems the disk in your system was part of such a RAID sometime in the past in another machine.
Is this saying that the installer at this stage has no way to tell that there is no installed hpt37x hardware? It seems to me it ought to be smart enough to find out, and if finding none, not only ignore any dmraid data it finds, but not look for any in the first place. If it might be possible, but just doesn't now, then this should amount to a request to add the feature to 11.0. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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