Bug 105514

Summary: Yast cannot handle Compaq Smart Area RAID devices
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: fraser
Version: Beta 2   
Target Milestone: Beta 3   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: All   
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Description Thomas Renninger 2005-08-18 14:06:57 UTC 
I tried to install on $subject system (three disks RAID 0 - shouldn't matter).

After booting install system, partition requests manual intervention. There I
only have the Expert settings as a choice.
I entered -> no partitions/disks.
I left and reentered, then even the Expert setting button vanished and a popup
like "No disks found" popped up.

Seems as if the Yast partitioner cannot handle these Compaq Smart Area devices
(copied from another machine):

 104     0   35551845 cciss/c0d0
 104     1    7341673 cciss/c0d0p1
 104     2    7341705 cciss/c0d0p2
 104     3          1 cciss/c0d0p3
 104     5    1052226 cciss/c0d0p5
 104     6   19816146 cciss/c0d0p6
 104    16   35551845 cciss/c0d1

You may want to test on the machine: aguirre (please be careful, it's not a
productive systems, but some people also work on this system).
Comment 1 Thomas Renninger 2005-08-18 14:07:39 UTC 
I should have mentioned that I recently installed on such a system with
SLES9-SP2 -> worked fine.
Comment 2 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-18 14:14:14 UTC 
Please attach YaST logs of the failed installation, see:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
Comment 4 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-18 18:17:45 UTC 
The attached log files are all only one line long and do not help much.

It is easily possible that there is a fundmental problem with libstorage and 
these cciss devices. So far I never had access to a system with such devices. 

I will coordinate with you on Monday to do some tests with libstorage
on aguirre if possible.
Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-22 12:41:47 UTC 
Installation on this devices should work with beta#3.
If not please reopen.
Comment 6 Fraser Campbell 2005-08-23 18:27:52 UTC 
Is there any workaround to use the devices on BETA2?  I'm having same problem
but on i386.  /proc/partitions does show partitions and from shell I can
manually partition them, they just aren't recognized as valid disks by YaST.
Comment 7 Thomas Fehr 2005-08-24 09:12:08 UTC 
Sorry, no there is no workaround I know of. 
The fix for libstorage is pretty trivial but it is nontrivial to create a
installation environment containing the fixed libstorage.
But beta#3 is available later this week and should have the bug fixed.