[Novalug] OpenSuSE 10.2 installer exhibits MS behavior
gregory pryzby
greg@pryzby.org
Thu Mar 8 21:36:26 EST 2007
openSUSE community accepts your apology for incorrectly blaming
openSUSE from being part of the borg
:^P
(greg pULLS Ken's chain now)
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:31:30PM -0500, Ken Kauffman wrote:
> On Thursday 08 March 2007 13:28, Russell Evans wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:59:04 -0500
> >
> > "Ken Kauffman" <kkauffman@headfog.com> wrote:
> > > I'm not going to scour the web/Google for a solution. If someone here
> > > doesn't know, I'll play with some other OS on that partition.
> >
> > I suggest you go play with something else as you don't seem happy with
> > what you have seen so far.
> >
> > The partitioning settings do not take effect until they are committed so
> > you might try deleting the raid setup and see if that will get you to
> > the raw disks.
> >
> > If you can't delete the raid then ctl-alt-f2 and issue `dmraid -an` to
> > see if disabling the raid partitions will be reflected in the gui.
> > ctl-alt-f7 back.
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> > Russell
>
> Russel
>
> Thank you very much for your pointers. It actually triggered other ideas once
> I started the process. As a result, I reached a solution which is below.
>
> After all that, I was part to blame that the installer was seeing those disks
> as dmraid. I still ran into some unexplained problems.
>
> # dmraid -an
> # dmraid -s
>
> For whatever reason, dmraid refused to deactivate the sets. So I thought
> about it a bit more and realized that it was a residual configuration effect
> *even through the drives had been formatted*.
>
> Essentially it boiled down to this. At some point in the past I had used
> these drives in a dmraid configuration. When installing Gentoo, I did not
> use a gui so I never noticed that there was still remaining METADATA.
> Additionally, I had formatted and installed XP for gaming on another drive.
> Evidently, the metadata lives on a "system-esque" area of the disk that is
> not affected by a format. The OpenSuSE installer was picking up on all 3
> drives metadata for dmraid.
>
> # dmraid -r -E
> This removes the metadata from all 3 disks. Once I did this, I was able to
> use the OpenSuSE graphical installer without issue as I had originally
> expected.
>
> As a matter of fact, I'm writing this from the OpenSuSE install.
>
> Hopefully this information is useful if anyone else runs into a similar
> situation.
>
> Ken
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