Anaconda/Sata_Promise conflict?

Kevin H. Hobbs hobbsk at ohiou.edu
Mon Jul 10 12:40:41 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 14:29 -0700, Jim Bevier wrote:
> I have 2 systems running Fedora Core.  Each is a K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard 
> with onboard PDC2037 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) controller chips.  One system 
> has a Athlon 64 3200+ processor and the other a 3400+.  Each has two 160GB 
> IDE primary (hda/hdb) drives.  Also two 160GB IDE (PATA) drives connected to 
> the promise controller in IDE mode as sda/sdb drives. Drive /dev/sdb on each 
> system has two Linux primary partitions and a swap partition.  On system 2 
> (3400+), I have FC5 on hda6 and FC6T1 on hda8.  FC5 & FC6 both have sdb1 & 
> sdb2 mounted using fstab entries.  FC5 was an upgrade from FC4 and FC6 was a 
> new install.  System 1 (3200+) has FC5 on hda6.  I had to manually upgrade 
> from FC4 because Anaconda fails when I select upgrade with an error saying 
> it can not mount /sdb1.  I tried the FC5 and respin FC5 cds with the same 
> error.  It would not put the abort dump info on a floppy no matter what I 
> tried ether!  That is another story.   I tried FC6T1 and it gives an error 
> right after I select "upgrade hda6" saying it could not mount sdb1 and says 
> there might not be a file system on the partition.  I deleted the sdb1 
> partition and created a new one and created a new ext3 file system on it. 
> Still the same error.  From FC5 I can mount the partiton and read/write it 
> with no problems.  So why is Anaconda complaining?  I can stop the error by 
> removing the entries for sdb1 & sdb2 from the fstab file under FC5??? 
> System 2 is almost exactly the same and gives no error on upgrade selection 
> with the fstab entries in place.  What else can I try?  What is at fault 
> here?  Any help to debug this would be appreciated. 
> 

I have the same controller, and saw the same issues with the parallel
interface on the serial controller.  There was some discussion of this
before...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179369


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