Bug 11208

Summary:	Installer fails if incorrect partition info in /etc/fstab
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Rogers <dan>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
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Description Daniel Rogers 2000-05-03 19:14:23 UTC

When performing a RH 6.2 upgrade, if the /etc/fstab on the target HD lists
a partition as containing an ext2 filesystem when it doesn't, the installer
will fail.

What I had done was to copy a RH 4.2 install from a drive containing three
partitions to a drive that only contained two.  This left the swap
partition as /dev/hda2 instead of /dev/hda3.  when I ran the installer and
tried to upgrade the new drive, it attempted to mount /dev/hda2 as an ext2
partition.  This failed.  However, it should probably have a better failure
method that just stopping (in the X installer) or halting the system (in
the curses one).

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2000-05-03 20:34:59 UTC

Verified in test lab.  Installer should definitely handle this situation a
little more gracefully.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-06-12 19:18:52 UTC

Should be fixed in latest internal release, passed to test lab for verification.