Bug 20323
| Summary: | "Error mounting hdb1: Invalid argument" | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Adam <shokempo> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||||||
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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: | 2000-11-07 15:18:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 5035 [details] "Error mounting hdb1: Invalid argument". Attached to bug 20323 |
Formating the file system (for a workstation install) goes OK until it finishes the /var partition on the slave IDE hard disk. I then receive the following error meesage... "Error mounting hdb1: Invalid argument. An internal error occurred in the installation process". A week before, I successfully installed the Red Hat server on the slave drive which was the primary drive at the time. Could the Master Boot Record on the current slave be a problem? Could it have LILO still installed in the MBR from my original installation? I used a Win 98 startup disk and then did a <fdisk /mbr> at the A:\ prompt, in an attempt to restore the MBR. From Win98 fdisk it says it has an Active non-dos partition, so how can I blow this away and leave it totally clean for linux hdb. Windows fdisk will not let me delete this 'unknown' partition. Here is the code that I saved: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 945976 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 8244e38> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 1 errno: 22 device: hdb1 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: /home ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>