Bug 128060

Summary: Installation aborted - because of unformatted partitions?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Felix Schwarz <felix.schwarz>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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I had some partitions unformatted, and it started complaining from the last one (/dev/hda15) none

Description Felix Schwarz 2004-07-16 21:03:47 UTC
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Description of problem:
I tried to make a fresh install of Fedora but the installation was
aborted while anaconda was trying to find old root partitions. This
bug is also present in Fedora Core 1.

See the attached logs from anaconda.

I think this bug may have something to do with my partition layout.
Here is my partition scheme before installing Fedora:
hda1  - Windows NTFS
hda2  - unused space (unformated)
hda3  - ext2 with a minimal linux
hda4  - unused space (unformated, Fedora should be installed here)

After the anaconda aborts I used the Fedora rescue mode and formatted
hda2 and hda3 with ext2. With the newly formatted partitions
everything worked as expected.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Fedora installation
    

Actual Results:  Installation is aborted while Anaconda is searching
old installations.

Expected Results:  Anaconda should recognize that there are no old
installations.

Comment 1 Felix Schwarz 2004-07-16 21:04:23 UTC
Created attachment 101985 [details]
Anaconda dump file

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-07-17 19:04:11 UTC
Fixed in CVS.  Odd that a) the partition was mountable and b) it
looked like there was a file there.

Comment 3 Aggelos 2005-05-11 12:10:22 UTC
Created attachment 114241 [details]
I had some partitions unformatted, and it started complaining from the last one (/dev/hda15)

attached is the dump I saved in floppy, as prompted by anaconda