Bug 2142

Summary:	latest installer boot.img does not find RedHat on local Linux Native partition
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	khera
Component:	installer	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	jbucata, noah
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description khera 1999-04-12 16:41:18 UTC

The latest installer from the 5.9.7-1 "release" of Starbuck
does not find RedHat on a local linux partition sdc1 hanging
off of a BusLogic controller. The "5.9-1" release boot.img
disk is able to upgrade from this local hard disk.

However, using the older boot.img disk to install the latest
release results in many warnings of unknown options in the
rpm config file, and fails to install the boot loader
(leaving a nice unbootable system).  It also fails to create
an emergency boot disk!  Luckily I have an older emergency
boot disk around...

Using the older boot.img to install the older "5.9-1"
release works just fine (except for some garbage characters
displayed on disk device names in the boot process.)

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 1999-04-17 21:10:59 UTC

fixed in future release

Comment 2 noah 1999-05-07 22:01:59 UTC

I get an error in the "Find installation files" part of the
install of the released 6.0 RedHat.  RedHat is on hda3 (on
my laptop); this partition is also my root partition.  I
get "mount failed: Device or resource busy".  It is apparently
trying to mount /tmp/hda3 onto /tmp/hdimage, which is wrong
because /tmp/hdimage is already a symlink pointing to (correctly
mounted) /mnt.  /tmp/rhimage is also correctly pointing to
/tmp/hdimage/home/ftp/pub/redhat-6.0 (my install dir).

I suspect the problem may be that I have a / and a /boot partition
on my 5.2 installation.  I suspect the installer is trying to
umount /mnt without umounting /mnt/boot first.  I umounted /mnt/boot
and then /mnt manually, and did a "Retry" on that installation
step, and it proceeded correctly.  However, when that step finished,
it re-unmounted /mnt, leaving the installer unable to find my
already-installed RPM database.  So, I re-mounted /mnt and
/mnt/boot manually, and a "Retry" of that step seemed to proceed
correctly for a while.

After doing the rebuilding of RPM database step, it attempted to
un/re-mount some stuff.  I eventually decided to ignore my /boot
partition entirely, and I manually mounted stuff until it started
cooperating again.  It managed to remount hda3 read-only on
/tmp/hdimage, and then wouldn't create a log file of the install
because of being mounted read-only.

In short, somebody check that you can install to the same
partition your installation files are on, and that you can
have another partition that mounts on your root partition.