Re: Help: F11 anaconda doesn't see my hard drives

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Sam Varshavchik<mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anaconda is barfing when I try to upgrade my existing F10. The machine has
> an IDE drive that contains a single Windows partitions, and two SCSI drives,
> hanging off an Adaptec 29320 HBA, with F10 on both drives in a RAID-1
> configuration.
>
> When Anaconda gets to the "checking storage" phase, it spins for a while,
> then proceeds immediately to do a new install.
>
> The partitioning screen has only /dev/sda listed, which is the existing
> Windows partition. /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, the two SCSI drives, are not
> shown. HOWEVER:
>
> When I flip over to ALT-F2, "fdisk /dev/sdb" and "fdisk /dev/sdc" read the
> partition table of the two SCSI drives. So, what I have is:
>
> 1) The kernel sees the SCSI drives
>
> 2) On some other ALT-F screen I see all the soothing messages from the md
> subsystem concerning registering various md personalities.
>
> However,
>
> 3) mdadm isn't running
>
> 4) Anaconda sees neither the softraid partitions, nor the actual underlying
> /dev/sd? devices at all.
>

You may want to bugzilla this.  Anaconda had all sorts of storage
changes during f11 and had numerous problems.  I believe it was (one
of?) the reasons that F11 slipped.  A few days before the f11 release
anaconda was trying to resize one of my partitions that wasn't even
being used in the install.

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