[CentOS] anaconda in centOS 4 fails to read md raid arrays
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Mon Jun 6 10:35:05 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:05 +0800, Feizhou wrote:
> Has anybody encountered this problem?
>
> I have a box that has FC2 installed. I wanted to trash the FC2
> installation and install CentOS 4.
>
> I have a pxeboot/dhcp/kickstart environment and so I tried automatic
> disk partitioning (clear all partitions and then create new ones),
> manual disk partitioning but everything else is automated and finally,
> zero automation, just a manual installation through VNC.
>
> Once I reach a part that touchs disk, the process will stop and end up with:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line
> 789, in nextClicked
> self.dispatch.gotoNext()
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
> line 171, in gotoNext
> self.moveStep()
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py",
> line 239, in moveStep
> rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py",
> line 54, in partitionObjectsInitialize
> partitions.setFromDisk(diskset)
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py",
> line 140, in setFromDisk
> diskset.startAllRaid()
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py",
> line 542, in startAllRaid
> DiskSet.mdList.extend(raid.startAllRaid(driveList))
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/raid.py", line
> 106, in startAllRaid
> mdList = scanForRaid(driveList)
> File "/var/tmp/anaconda-10.1.1.13//usr/lib/anaconda/raid.py", line
> 56, in scanForRaid
> (major, minor, raidSet, level, nrDisks, totalDisks, mdMinor) =\
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 97, in raidsb
> return raidsbFromDevice("/tmp/md")
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 103, in raidsbFromDevice
> rc = _isys.getraidsb(fd)
> SystemError: (5, 'Input/output error')
I had a similar problem with a ppc install on RHEL. I think (but I am
not 100% positive) that it is a LVM1 / LVM2 compatibility issue.
What I had to do was use fdisk and wipe the partitions and then I
recreated them in anaconda using the raid and lvm tools in anaconda.
I have never actually had that problem on CentOS-4, but it is the same
code, so I'm sure it happens in C4 too.
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