Bug 122101
| Summary: | Install fails if there are previous "version 0" swap-partitions | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | andreasp <wpt2097> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-06-21 12:44:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 133260 | ||
Arjan -- did we lose support for these in the kernel? Correct. From http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt - Version zero swap partitions are no longer supported (everything is using v1 now anyway - rerun mkswap if in doubt). Linux 2.0.x requires v0 swap space, Linux v2.1.117 and later support v1. mkswap(8) can format swap space in either format. Added support to ignore version 0 swaps. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 Description of problem: Install fails when anaconda tries "swapon" and there are already existing swap-partitions (version 0) from other distributions. The message was "Please reboot" (or something, sorry, don't remember). Suggestion: When anaconda looks for swap-partitions to activate, make sure they are compatible with the current kernel. Make anaconda only activate "version 1+" swap-partitions if it finds any, and if none is found ask to initialize "version 0" swaps and tell user it might cause a problem with previously installed distributions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have an 2.4-based distribution already installed on a system 2. Make sure it has a "version 0" swap-partition 3. Try to install FC2t3 Actual Results: Dialog that asks me to reboot and try installing again. Expected Results: Start of package installation Additional info: