F9 installation issues

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat May 3 00:43:08 UTC 2008


Gerry Reno (greno at verizon.net) said: 
> I've had a good number of problems when installing F9 in partitioning 
> scenarios that are more than just very simple one drive setups.
>
> So I ran a series of tests today and put some results in a bug that I have 
> opened on these problems: 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443451
>
> For example, I have yet to get anaconda/druid to properly install using any 
> type of RAID setup.  Even a very simple, 2 drive setup fails. I can get the 
> software to install but anaconda cannot seem to install the bootloader 
> correctly so I either see GRUB or grub> after the Reboot.
>
> And in more complex scenario like using LVM over RAID (which I use all the 
> time), anaconda gets a whole bunch of Unhandled Exceptions.
>
> These things should be fixed before the F9 final release.  F9 needs to be 
> able to handle all the RAIDed systems out there and right now it
> won't be able to do that.

>From reading the bug, it seems to be a rather specific issue with the
kernel and your storage chipset, rather than a general issue. Are there
other AMD 790FX users out there?

Bill




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