On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:22 +0800, Hadders wrote: > Sean Bruno wrote: > > 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 > > > > > have you ever run the RAID through the BIOS's? > Yes. A long, long, long time ago. It didn't work under FC4, so I used S/W raid. FC5's support of these 'fake' Raid devices didn't impress me, so I stuck with S/W raid. My intent with FC6 was to do the same thing, however numerous attempts to install on more than one disk have failed. Sean
