[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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