Build issues FC4 on Dell GX280

[Neil Marjoram]

Steve,

I rebooted my system and found the disk had been partitioned, so I setup 
the filesystems on the partitions again and of it went.

I am currently working back through a problem I have with kickstart 
configuration. This seems to have many failure points that look like 
theyt point to hardrive partitioning either with SATA, ATA or SCSI 
disks. This problem seems to manifest itself in RHEL 4 as well.

I had this appear in my inbox recently :

"Try looking for a SATA compatability mode in your BIOS, and enabling that."

So I will, but I fear that won't help with all the other types of drive.

Neil.



Steven Joerger wrote:

>I get this same error message on 2 different systems. First system is
>a Dell Optiplex GX400 with regular ATA drive. Second system is a
>generic white box (Tyan mb with dual P3 800's) using a scsi hard
>drive.
>
>I get this error whether I manually set the partition layout or if I
>let it get auto-created.
>
>Steve
>
>On 6/14/05, Neil Marjoram <n.marjoram at adastral.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have been trying to load FC4 on my fleet of Dell GX280 small form
>>factors. The systems are brand new, 2.8 Ghz, 512MB, 40 GB SATA drives.
>>
>>Anaconda loads up, and I can get all the way until the installer starts
>>to format the disks. The system then complains about not being able to
>>tell the kernel about the changes to the partitions (all of them one
>>after another) and then crashes with the error :
>>
>>Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition
>>/dev/sdaX - Device or Resource busy. This means that linux won't know
>>about any changes you made to /dev/sdaX until you reboot - so you
>>shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
>>
>>I have created my own partiton table manually using ext3 filesystems,
>>    
>>
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>

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