On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:02 +0800, Hadders wrote: > Sean Bruno wrote: > > I've been wrestling with anaconda this evening on my x86_64 machine. It > > seems that anaconda (or some other piece of the installer) is > > forcing /dev/mapper to be created even when I have no RAID devices > > enabled. > > > > I have cleared the 'fake' raid stuff off of my disks from rescue > > mode(dmraid -E), but with 2 disks installed the installer insists on > > trying to configure /dev/mapper/mpath0. > > > > I see each disk individually if I only have one SATA drive connected at > > a time. Which seems odd as heck to me, but I can install FC6 and at > > least send you folks this email this way. > > > > Is there a 'nodmraid' option to the installer that I can pass to allow > > me to see /dev/sda & /dev/sdb instead of the dmraid stuff? What's even > > stranger is that there appears to be a way to disable dmraid from the > > GUI screen when you choose to 'remove all partitions', but the option is > > greyed out?!? > > > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > > > Sean > > > > > > > > > Does your mainboard have any RAID BIOS's loaded? > Jump in to the BIOS and have a look at the SATA RAID stuff, DON'T CHANGE > IT. > Please let us know what the setting is. I have an Asus K8N-DL mobo that has two RAID controllers on it. An Nvidia and a Silicon Image. I have both RAID controllers disabled at this time. Both of the SATA drives were connected to the Nvidia SATA controller during this round of tests. Sean
