Fedora 9 install is failing on a new machine. I suspect the problem is related to my RAID's. I have two small, fast drives in a RAID 0 600GB array, partitioned into two drives which currently hold Vista and XP. I have three large, slow drives in a RAID 5 1.4TB array, as a single partition currently holding ISO's of Fedora 7, 8 and 9 and not much else. The RAID's are defined in the BIOS, using the Intel ICH9. The Fedora installs get past the media check (DVD is fine, it says). I select English and the us keyboard, and get no further response on that console. Randomly pressing keys, I realized <alt>-F4 offered me this clear statement: <6>sde: rw=0, want=2930284536, limit=1465149168 <6>attempt to access beyond end of device Then I discovered <alt>-F2 gave me a shell prompt. After the install "hangs," /dev includes sda, sda1, sda2, sdb, sdc, sdc1, sdd and sde. fdisk -l thinks sda is 300GB, roughly evenly divided into sda1 and sda2. fdisk -l thinks sdb is 300GB without a partition table. fdisk -l thinks sdc is 750GB with a single large partition. The last block number is very similar to the "limit" on the <6>sde error message. fdisk -l thinks sdd is 750GB, without a partition table. fdisk -l thinks sde is 750GB with a single large partition. The last block number is very similar to the "limit" on the <6>sde error message. So, it seems like my small array and my large array are each twice as big as Fedora sees, and at least in one section of code, Fedora performs a seek to a block which is outside the limit Fedora saw but near the end of the actual array. How am I misleading Fedora regarding my block counts? I would prefer not to let Fedora define the array (lvm) because I use several OSes (anybody want a copy of OS/2?), and I do not see that inserting a hardware RAID controller would help, so I am hoping for something like a "count all the blocks" switch to add on the install command. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
