Bug 245
| Summary: | Install fails with a message.. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | vladimip |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Matt Wilson <msw> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| 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: | 1999-01-12 03:41:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This has been assigned to a developer for further review. Is this failing as you are booting off the boot floppy or upon reboot after an upgrade? If the problem is after the upgrade, it looks like your /etc/lilo.conf may not have the root=/dev/hdb1 line in it. What is your support ticket number? It really looks like a corrupt image or hardware problem. No reply since December 9. Closing bug. |
I submitted it ro 90-days RH techsupport but since they haven't replied after almost two weeks I assume it can't be easily solved and may be a bug. If you need more details about the system please let me know. Some of (hopefully relevant) info is attached at the end of this message. I have a problem upgrading a system from 5.1 to 5.2. So far, it went from RH 2.0.?? (some old 1995 release, I still have a CD laying around) through all releases to 5.1 without a hitch but this time I get an error message: [normal kernel messages about TTY's and partition checks] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=2)VFS: Cannot open root device 08:22 Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:22 First I thought the boot floppy disk supplied in the boxed set was bad but I made a copy of it beforehand and made another attempt with that floppy with the same error. Then I booted the system normally and dd'ed another boot disk from 5.2 CD images directory and again, it came up with the same error. I have three systems to upgrade and luckily two of them will boot off the CD. Still, my questions is: What does the error mean? As I mentioned before, this is a very generic perfectly functioning PC and always upgraded easily. I would much appreciate any insights. Vlad ===================================================== vlad@borg 23:29:26 /home/vlad>$ mount /dev/hdb1 on / type ext2 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /usr type ext2 (ro) /dev/hda3 on /usr/src type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda4 on /usr/X11R6 type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid) /dev/hdb4 on /home type ext2 (rw,usrquota) /dev/hda2 on /dos type vfat (ro,noexec) /dev/hdd on /cd type iso9660 (ro) klingon:/ on /klingon type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,addr=10.0.0.1) vlad@borg 23:29:28 /home/vlad>$ ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:6F:48:A2 inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1767404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:1767601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6000 vlad@borg 23:30:04 /home/vlad>$ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdb1 396165 300678 75027 80% / /dev/hdb2 603000 479233 92620 84% /usr /dev/hda3 199079 199073 6 100% /usr/src /dev/hda4 151259 115698 35561 76% /usr/X11R6 /dev/hda1 79994 31936 48058 40% /var /dev/hdb4 163967 114016 41484 73% /home /dev/hda2 102598 11168 91430 11% /dos /dev/hdd 311634 311634 0 100% /cd klingon:/ 1095993 641025 398341 62% /klingon /dev/sda4 96703 13 96690 0% /zdrive (although /ds is a vfat partition it does not have any real bootable DOS installed and is used only for DOSEMU) root@borg 23:32:05 /root># hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=SAMSUNG SHD-30560A (APRO-5) SSI, FwRev=BF103S, SerialNo=SS302300 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=1086/16/63, TrkSize=37800, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=126kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=1(medium), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast) CurCHS=1087/16/63, CurSects=1095696, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1096048 tDMA={min:352,rec:352}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 *mword0 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:352,w/IORDY:180}, PIO modes: mode3 root@borg 23:32:13 /root># hdparm -i /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, FwRev=A63.0E00, SerialNo=82260853 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=2484/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=83kB, MaxMultSect=8, MultSect=off DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast) CurCHS=2484/16/63, CurSects=2503872, LBA=yes, LBAsects=2503872 tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 *mword2 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:333,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4 root@borg 23:32:16 /root># fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 543 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 1 82 82624+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 83 83 184 102816 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda3 185 185 388 205632 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 389 389 543 156240 83 Linux native Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 1 203 409216+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdb2 204 204 512 622944 83 Linux native /dev/hdb3 513 513 537 50400 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb4 538 538 621 169344 83 Linux native Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda4 * 1 1 96 98288 83 Linux native Please let me know if you need anything else.