On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:53 +0100, dragoran wrote:
> I have tryed to upgrade from FC4 -> FC5 using anaconda but it did not
> detect my FC4 installation which is installed on /dev/md0.
> It tryes to add a non raid partition to the array and ignores the raid
> partition. This causes the initalisation of md0 to fail.
> Is this a kernel or anaconda bug?
> Bug report:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186312
> (no reply ...)
> So I backuped my data dan tryed a reinstall and it detected the md0
> array in diskdruid but showed "foreign" as filesystem..
> did edit and set mount point to / and filesystem ext3
> but it failed formating it with a messages saying that it failed and
> that I should press enter to reboot the system.
> What happend? How could such things happen with a *final* release? Raid
> support seems broken and nobody has noticed.
> I always updated my system from RH9->FC1->FC2->FC3->FC4 (then
> reinstalled FC4 because of i386->x86_64) but it seems that upgrade is no
> more possible to FC5 :(
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I'd suggest you switch to console once Anaconda loads and mount the MD0
by hand.
It should give you a way to circumvent the bug.
Gilboa
I just deleted the raid and recreated it and now it seems to work fine.
(running FC5 with md raid now).
But the bug still needs to be fixed.
But I don't like to reinstall FC6 when its out upgrade from raid should
work as it did before FC5.