If you receive an error message stating No
devices found to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there is probably a
SCSI controller that is not being recognized by the installation
program.
Check your hardware vendor's website to
determine if a driver diskette image is available that fixes your
problem. For more general information on driver
diskettes, refer to Appendix E Driver Media.
You can also refer to the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility
List, available online at:
If you receive a traceback error message during installation, you can
usually save it to a diskette.
If you do not have a diskette drive available in your system, you can
scp the error message to a remote system.
When the traceback dialog appears, the traceback error message is
automatically written to a file named
/tmp/anacdump.txt. Once the dialog appears, switch
over to a new tty (virtual console) by pressing the keys
[Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F2] and
scp the message written to
/tmp/anacdump.txt to a known working remote
system.
If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning
Setup (Section 4.14 Disk Partitioning Setup) phase of the
installation saying something similar to
The partition table on
device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized,
causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.
you may not have a partition table on that drive or the partition
table on the drive may not be recognizable by the partitioning software
used in the installation program.
Users who have used programs such as
EZ-BIOS have experienced similar problems,
causing data to be lost (assuming the data was not backed up before the
installation began) that could not be recovered.
No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the
existing data on your systems should always be made.
You have a swap and a /
(root) partition created, and you have selected the root partition to use the
remaining space, but it does not fill the hard drive.
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders, you must create a
/boot partition if you want the /
(root) partition to use all of the remaining space on your hard drive.
If you are using Disk Druid to create
partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably have not
created all the partitions necessary for Disk
Druid's dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
 | Tip |
|---|
| | When defining a partition's type as
swap, do not assign it a mount point. Disk
Druid automatically assigns the mount point for you.
|
If you are using Disk Druid to create
partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably have not
created all the partitions necessary for Disk
Druid's dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
| Tip |
|---|
| | When defining a partition's type as
swap, you do not have to assign it a mount point. Disk
Druid automatically assigns the mount point for you.
|
During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the installation
program (also known as anaconda) may fail with
a Python or traceback error. This error may occur after the selection of
individual packages or while trying to save the upgrade log in the
/tmp/directory. The error may look similar to:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py",
line 20, in run
rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1468, in
doInstall
self.fstab.savePartitions ()
File "fstab.py", line 221, in savePartitions
sys.exit(0)
SystemExit: 0
Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446fe0>
sys: <module 'sys' (built-in)>
ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6
<failed> |
This error occurs in some systems where links to
/tmp/ are symbolic to other locations or have been
changed since creation. These symbolic or changed links are invalid
during the installation process, so the installation program cannot
write information and fails.
If you experience such an error, first try to download any
available errata for anaconda. Errata can be
found at:
The anaconda website may also be a useful
reference and can be found online at:
You can also search for bug reports related to this problem. To
search Red Hat's bug tracking system, go to:
Finally, if you are still facing problems related to this error,
register your product and contact our support team. To register your
product, go to:
