Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by PaulFrields: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Installer?action=diff&rev2=127&rev1=126 The comment on the change is: Add note on partition limits ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Improved Live images support * Ability to install from Live image running from RAM or USB stick * Improved IEEE-1394 (Firewire) support - * Use of ''/dev/hdX'' is deprecated on i386 and and x86_64 for IDE drives and has changed to ''/dev/sdX'' except on PPC. See note about the importance of labeling devices for upgrades from FC6. + * Use of ''/dev/hdX'' is deprecated on i386 and and x86_64 for IDE drives and has changed to ''/dev/sdX'' except on PPC. See notes about the importance of labeling devices for upgrades from FC6, and partition limitations. === Installation Related Issues === @@ -62, +62 @@ === Upgrade Related Issues === Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for detailed recommended procedures for upgrading Fedora. + + ==== SCSI driver partition limits ==== + + Whereas older IDE drivers supported up to 63 partitions per device, SCSI devices are limited to 15 partitions per device. '''Anaconda''' uses the new `libata` driver in the same fashion as the rest of Fedora, so it is unable to detect more than 15 partitions on an IDE disk during the installation or upgrade process. + + If you are upgrading a system with more than 15 partitions, you may need to migrate the disk to Logical Volume Management (LVM). This restriction may cause conflicts with other installed systems if they do not support LVM. Most modern Linux distributions support LVM, and drivers are available for other operating systems as well. ==== Disk partitions must be labelled ==== -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
