Bug 38714

Summary:	Installation confused by bad (ro) filesystem
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Kenneth Corbin <kenc>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Kenneth Corbin 2001-05-02 06:37:22 UTC

Durring my upgrade installation, I was confused when the installer said I
had a bad filesystem and that I should reboot linux to correct it before
starting the install again.  But rebooting my linux system didn't fix
anything.   Problem turned out to be a corrupt ext2 filesystem that I was
keeping as a backup from a previous version.  I have it flagged in fstab as
readonly to protect it from being corrupted, and have the last field set to
zero because it don't care overly much about it's integrity.   So the
installation kept saying that it was bad while the regualar linux boot just
ignored it.   The installer was obviously reading fstab and probably should
have picked up on the last field being zero.

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-05-02 15:39:12 UTC

Did your backup partition have an /etc/fstab file in it?

Comment 2 Kenneth Corbin 2001-05-02 23:36:12 UTC

Yes, the backup partion would have had an /etc/fstab file that was identical to
the one in the primary partition, that is the one that was being upgraded.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-05-03 15:36:08 UTC

Oh, that's the problem...the installer scans the hard drive for linux
partitions...any ones that have an /etc/fstab file are considered partitions
that contain a "/" partition.  If you rename the /etc/fstab on your backup
partition to /etc/fstab.bak, do things work?

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-05-14 20:24:13 UTC

Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.