Rick Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:59 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> Ok nice to be right back in the EXACT same position I was in several
> years ago regarding this motherboard and installing FC. I think it was
> FC3 that this first became an issue, but I was able to work around it
> and install FC. So now, I tried to install FC6/7 and I yet to find a way
> to get it installed.
>
> So now it has been a year or so without being able to run Fedora/CentOS.
> Please help as I really don't want to use Ubunto and especially not Suse.
>
> Anyone have an issue installing on the Asus board?
>
> Trying to install causes a seg fault when dealing with the hard drives
> either in BIOS setting compatibility mode or SATA mode. Anaconda shows
> the hard drives as "/dev/mapper" or something like that, but as you
> know, they should appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. All I ever see is a
> single "/dev/mapper" which suggests that Anaconda sees a raid array even
> after I fdisk the drives. Of coarse this also rendered the system
> unusable after the seg fault resulted in a reboot.
>
/dev/mapper is used whenever you tell the system to use LVM. It you
do NOT use LVM-based partitions, then /dev/sda and /dev/sdb will work.
True here but we might not be on the same page. I do not have a choice
but to use /dev/mapper as anaconda determined this and it is not the
case. It is a bug. I tried to wipe the disks with fdisk, reboot and
contune another install, but Anaconda still only shows /dev/mapper.
A segfault is most likely caused by flakey memory or specifying the
"Use other repo" during the package selection phase of the install.
Don't use it.
Although true, it is not relevant here. This seg fault has to do with
Anaconda not recognizing the correct disks and then trying to install to
that.
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