After having booted the F7 installation DVD and entered my language and keyboard choices I get a warning box saying I got more than 15 partitions on /dev/sdb and that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel does not allow that.
The are two problems in this. First: I do not have SCSI disks on my system, I have two IDE disks of 120 GBs each. Secondly: I have 16 partitions on /dev/hdb which have never posed any problem for me, in fact I have /var on /dev/hdb16 and my FC5 has be rock stable.
If I continue on from this warning it correctly identifies the two Linux systems but incorrectly places them on SCSI devices (/dev/sdb5 and /dev/sdb13). And I dare not continue any further.
My intention is to remove FC3 and install F7 in its place while keeping FC5 as my primary system until F7 is ready for production. What sort of risks may I expect if I go on with the installation? Will it eventually break down when it realises that the disks indeed are not SCSI disks? Or is there a way to tell anaconda what sort of disks it really is?
Erik P. Olsen wrote:
After having booted the F7 installation DVD and entered my language and keyboard choices I get a warning box saying I got more than 15 partitions on /dev/sdb and that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel does not allow that.
The are two problems in this. First: I do not have SCSI disks on my system, I have two IDE disks of 120 GBs each. Secondly: I have 16 partitions on /dev/hdb which have never posed any problem for me, in fact I have /var on /dev/hdb16 and my FC5 has be rock stable.
I think what you are seeing is 'correct' and is due to changes in how devices are handled in the kernel. hda disks do become sda ones. A quick google search for this brought up this thread for instance
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14
I'm not effected by this, so I cannot offer any help. But I'm sure others on this list can.
Chris
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:32 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
After having booted the F7 installation DVD and entered my language and keyboard choices I get a warning box saying I got more than 15 partitions on /dev/sdb and that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel does not allow that.
<snip> Fedora 7 uses a new kernel hard drive interface that treats all hard drives as if they are SCSI. I believe the new interface doesn't allow more than 15 partitions on a single device. For more information, see: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-December/msg00474.html
Jonathan
Sorry - Copied the link wrong. It really is
On 6/1/07, Erik P. Olsen epodata@gmail.com wrote:
After having booted the F7 installation DVD and entered my language and keyboard choices I get a warning box saying I got more than 15 partitions on /dev/sdb and that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel does not allow that.
The are two problems in this. First: I do not have SCSI disks on my system, I have two IDE disks of 120 GBs each. Secondly: I have 16 partitions on /dev/hdb which have never posed any problem for me, in fact I have /var on /dev/hdb16 and my FC5 has be rock stable.
All disks are now 'SCSI' disks. In other words, that is how the system identifies them. Not sure about the limits on the number of partitions you are allowed to have per disk.
If I continue on from this warning it correctly identifies the two Linux systems but incorrectly places them on SCSI devices (/dev/sdb5 and /dev/sdb13). And I dare not continue any further.
My intention is to remove FC3 and install F7 in its place while keeping FC5 as my primary system until F7 is ready for production. What sort of risks may I expect if I go on with the installation? Will it eventually break down when it realises that the disks indeed are not SCSI disks? Or is there a way to tell anaconda what sort of disks it really is?
Someone more knowledgeable than me will have to comment on your partitioning scheme. That is the only problem I see.
HTH ne...
Jonathan Dieter wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:32 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
After having booted the F7 installation DVD and entered my language and keyboard choices I get a warning box saying I got more than 15 partitions on /dev/sdb and that the SCSI subsystem in the Linux kernel does not allow that.
<snip> Fedora 7 uses a new kernel hard drive interface that treats all hard drives as if they are SCSI. I believe the new interface doesn't allow more than 15 partitions on a single device. For more information, see: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-December/msg00474.html
Thanks, that explained a lot.
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