Description of problem: I have a computer which was running mageia 6. It has a boot disk (/dev/sda) and 7 rand drives. I tried updating it online via the command line, which bricked the box. I then did a fresh install using a usb flash disk which I have used to install mageia 7 on four other computers successfully. The installer starts up normally. When looking for a disk to install mageia 7 on, it sees the raid drives, but can't recognize the partitions and asks if it can erase them. I always clock no. It then says it can't find any space to install mageia 7. I removed all of the raid disks, and left only /dev/sda (which happens to have win 10 also installed on it), and the installation was successful. This is similar to bugs: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22307 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11105 After I booted mageia 7 successfully, I installed the raid disks and they were automagically detected as an array, and the array was started successfully. This problem of being unable to install with a raid array present has been around for several years, and really should be fixed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mageia 7 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to install mageia 7 2. it can't find any disk space 3. cry
Thank you for the report (and its bug references), which is clearer than bug 22307, but the same sort of problem. > This problem of being unable to install with a raid array present has been > around for several years, and really should be fixed. Agree. However, since the other bug is older, and has diagnostic advice, you will I hope excuse me in marking this one as a duplicate of the other. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22307 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => lewyssmithResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE