Bug 20131
Summary: | Upgrade installation fails (Signal 11?) | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | kthorn01 |
Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2000-11-06 21:47:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
kthorn01
2000-11-01 04:39:12 UTC
Passed to QA to reproduce. Using generic test lab equipment (NOT a Dell Dimension as you have), I was
unable to:
1) Install 6.0 with the extended partition of type 'f'
2) Reproduce your traceback upgrading to 7.0
so here is what I did ...
I installed a minimal 6.0 to a partition table like yours using the regular
extended type '5' ... and then post-install changed the extended type to 'f'
using fdisk ... I was able to reboot into the install and list the partition
contents:
% df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 486M 46M 415M 10% /
/dev/hda5 15M 13k 14M 1% /home
/dev/hda8 15M 13k 14M 1% /home2
/dev/hda9 15M 13k 14M 1% /home3
/dev/hda7 972M 143M 778M 16% /usr
% fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3 24066 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 4 67 514080 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 68 787 5783400 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 68 69 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 70 78 72261 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 79 206 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 207 208 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 209 210 16033+ 83 Linux
Now, upgrading to 7.0 (I used text mode) went without any problems with
/dev/hda3 being type 'f' ... was able to reboot and post-install w/out any
issues ...
> If I must use type 05 extended partition, is there any way I
> can just convert 0f to 05 *non-distructively*
You can change the partition type from 'f' to '5' using fdisk (after all
important data has been backed up! :) ) ...
thanks for your report!
This upgrade failure may occur for a reason other than the 'f' vs '5' extended partition type issue ... please reopen this if changing the partition type from 'f' to '5' still fails in the upgrade for a different reason! |