Bug 12246

Summary:	RFE:Handle exceptions related to /etc/fstab entries more gracefully
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jonathan Kamens <h1k6zn2m>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2000-06-14 09:36:52 UTC

When I tried to do a text-based ugprade from 6.2 to Winston, I got this
error message while it was checking for previous installations: "Error
mounting hde5: block device required", then an anaconda traceback and the
installer gave up.

This is probably because hde is on a promise IDE controller whose driver is
not built into the kernel.  I suspect that when the default IDE driver is
used to access the promise IDE card, it can't handle old IDE drives (hde is
a very old drive), whereas it can handle such drives when the promise
driver is used.

Perhaps anaconda should display warnings, not fatal errors, when it can't
mount a filesystem that's listed in /etc/fstab.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-06-14 14:09:19 UTC

This feature will be added to our list of requests.

Comment 2 Jonathan Kamens 2000-06-15 01:06:10 UTC

This is not a "feature."  It is a bug.  I have a valid RedHat installation and
yet I cannot use the RedHat upgrade process because of this problem.  Yes, there
is a workaround (I can comment out hde in /etc/fstab before rebooting to do the
upgrade), but that doesn't change the fact that this is a bug and should be
treated as such.