Wednesday, July 9. 2008

Fedora 9 and samsung harddrives: Install fails

Just a quick note to warn folks of a bug in anaconda, the installer in fedora 9. Machines that sport a Samsung hardrive should not attempt to move to f9 from f8 as the installer will throw an error like this:

Invalid Object Path
'/org/freedesktop/hal/devices/storage=model_SAMSUNG_HD160JJ/' ends with '/' and is not just '/'


This is because the harddrive's identifier contains the '/' character, and HAL gets confused. This happens whether you are trying to install from DVD or via the preupgrade process.

This is a known bug: here.

I have verified that you can install on this hardware using the Live CD.


Posted by thaddeus in Redhat Linux at 13:23 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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