Description of problem: When I try to install, the installer says it can't recognize partitions on my hard drives and asks if I want to delete the existing partitions. When I say no, it says it can't find any space to do the installation and repeats the message. If I agree to delete the existing partitions, I can access /dev/sdh and do a normal installation. I suspect that after finding a bunch of hard drives with unrecognized partitions, the installer gives up looking for usable partitions. I have a gateway oem asus cur-dls motherboard. I have installed a supermicro hba with 7 sata hard drives. I have a md software raid 5 partition on the 7 sata hard drives. I have installed a promise tx-100 controller with 1 pata hard drive. The pata drive is where my operating system is (/dev/sdh). Fedora 17 has no problem finding /dev/sdh to do an installation. If I agree to lose all partitions, I can do an install with mageia-2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mageia-2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. install mageia 2 x86 cd 2. boot 3. refuse to delete partitions I think it also a misfeature that the md partitioned disks are unrecognized. Fedora 17 knows what they are, and builds the md array automatically during installation.
Summary: installer can't find disk space to install when there are lots of disks present => installer can't find disk space to install when there are lots of disks present and the os disk is the last disk detected
can you add the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sd[a-z]' ?
CC: (none) => pterjan, thierry.vignaud
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdc: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdd: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sde: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdg: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdh: 82.0 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc6aec6ae Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 * 63 20482874 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdh2 20484096 21508095 512000 83 Linux /dev/sdh3 21508096 41988095 10240000 83 Linux
1. Changing version to cauldron since we can't fix installer for released versions (that's what alphas and betas are for) 2. Is this bug still valid with latest installer? (Mageia 4 alpha 1 as of today)
CC: (none) => stormiVersion: 2 => Cauldron
I have no idea. I have not tested it.
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Dear, It's an old bug with the installer and md/dmraid. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11105 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => megastorageResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE