RHEL7 installation failed on a server with BIOS/UEFI-assisted software RAID provided by LSI
Issue
- RHEL7 installation failed with the following python traceback.
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/devices/partition.py", line 373, in preCommitFixup
_partition = _disklabel.partedDisk.getPartitionBySector(_sector)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/devicetree.py", line 291, in _preProcessActions
device.preCommitFixup()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/devicetree.py", line 367, in processActions
self._preProcessActions()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/__init__.py", line 380, in doIt
self.devicetree.processActions(callbacks)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/__init__.py", line 230, in turnOnFilesystems
storage.doIt(callbacks)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 206, in doInstall
turnOnFilesystems(storage, mountOnly=flags.flags.dirInstall, callbacks=callbacks_reg)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 765, in run
self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 227, in run
threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
AttributeError: 'DeviceFormat' object has no attribute 'partedDisk'
_disklabel: existing None
self: existing 222.58 GiB partition ddf1_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (212) with existing lvmpv
- BIOS/UEFI-assisted software RAID provided by LSI is available on the server, and configured a mirroring device on that.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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