FC5 weird raid issues

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Sun Mar 26 09:51:58 UTC 2006


Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:53 +0100, dragoran wrote:
>   
>> I have tryed to upgrade from FC4 -> FC5 using anaconda but it did not 
>> detect my FC4 installation which is installed on /dev/md0.
>> It tryes to add a non raid partition to the array and ignores the raid 
>> partition. This causes the initalisation of md0 to fail.
>> Is this a kernel or anaconda bug?
>> Bug report:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186312
>> (no reply ...)
>> So I backuped my data dan tryed a reinstall and it detected the md0 
>> array in diskdruid but showed "foreign" as filesystem..
>> did edit and set mount point to / and filesystem ext3
>> but it failed formating it with a messages saying that it failed and 
>> that I should press enter to reboot the system.
>> What happend? How could such things happen with a *final* release? Raid 
>> support seems broken and nobody has noticed.
>> I always updated my system from RH9->FC1->FC2->FC3->FC4 (then 
>> reinstalled FC4 because of i386->x86_64) but it seems that upgrade is no 
>> more possible to FC5 :(
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I'd suggest you switch to console once Anaconda loads and mount the MD0
> by hand.
> It should give you a way to circumvent the bug. 
>
> Gilboa
>
>   
I just deleted the raid and recreated it and now it seems to work fine.
(running FC5 with md raid now).
But the bug still needs to be fixed.
But I don't like to reinstall FC6 when its out upgrade from raid should 
work as it did before FC5.




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