Bug 1649
| Summary: | Upgrade 5.8.6 -> 5.9 failed | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Pekka Pietikäinen <pp> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-03-26 02:12:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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When doing a CD upgrade from 5.8.6 to 5.9 the installer found garbage names for my partitions (looked like it might be a bad pointer or similar) making upgrading impossible. The amount of partitions was correct and a normal install works fine. The upgrade was attempted to a SCSI disk (aic7880) from IDE cdrom. One special feature of the disk is that it was partitioned under a different scsi controller, so fdisk reports errors like /dev/sdb1 1 102 103849+ 83 Linux native Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(24, 133, 62) should be (24, 63, 32) /dev/sdb2 102 167 66464 82 Linux swap Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(40, 133, 62) should be (40, 63, 32) /dev/sdb3 167 820 668794 83 Linux native Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(201, 133, 62) should be (201, 63, 32) /dev/sdb4 820 4134 3393818 5 Extended Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1018, 133, 62) should be (1018, 63, 32) /dev/sdb5 820 2869 2097769+ 83 Linux native /dev/sdb6 2869 4134 1296047+ 83 Linux native because the geometry used is different, but the disk has worked like that without problems for a year or so.