[lug] FC12 installer bug?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:45:57 +0000 (UTC)
stimits at comcast.net wrote:

> I've been trying to install to a quad opteron machine, with 4 hard
> drives (400 GB each, SATA2). I've been experimenting with raid
> options, and cannot get past what is apparently a show-stopper bug.
> From what little I found, this was supposed to be FC12 beta bug...has
> anyone here run into this on the non-beta? 527952 MODIFIED anaconda
> AttributeError: ' NoneType ' object has no attribute 'disk' 
> 
> I get through what appears to be a perfectly fine partition scheme,
> and tell it to go on to the next part, and anaconda dies with the
> NoneType message. Perhaps there is a workaround, maybe
> pre-partitioning in a rescue mode? 

Does it offer to file a bug on it? If there is network it should do so,
and then we can look at the bug and see the exact backtrace. If it's
the same as the above bug it should mark it as so. 

I do know it's sometimes confused by leftover raid superblocks. Might
try making sure the start and end of each disk are totally wiped if you
are doing a clean install? (ie, dd them with /dev/zero). 

> Related question on state-of-the-art in FC12: I have not installed a
> system in quite a while, and although it's obvious that /boot can't
> use LVM, can this use RAID1? Journaling filesystems like ext3
> (without special kernel builds)? 

Yes, it can be raid or ext3 or ext4. 

kevin
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