Bug 25940
| Summary: | Error on install creating swap partition. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David <doneal> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| 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: | 2001-02-08 20:45:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Please give details on how you partitioned the disk, and any other unusual steps you might have taken (going back/forwards through screens more than once,etc). I chose install workstation. I chose the automatic partioning tool. One really odd thing after I finally broke down and read some documentation for fdisk and used manual fdisk it was showing my 3.2 G drive with 8GB free. I finally got everything working when I used fdisk to manually partion the disk into the linux swap and native linux partitions, NOT AS REMAINING but using something like +2900M argument to specify that I only wanted a 2900MB partion. My guess is that the driver/linux expected the wrong # of cylinders or the wrong #of bytes per cylinder/track some how screwballing the calculation of HD space. The HD is a QUANTUM FIREBALL SE 3.2G and whatever drivers came with linux apparently worked because I did nothing special. It was assigned as master plugged directly into the mother board. (I have another HD (also master) plugged into an ATA66/PCI controller card. It was never detected. I'm guessing that linux did not find a suitable driver for the controller card.) Could you please tell me what cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry says on the system when installed? Closing due to inactivity. |
I was installing RedHat 7 on a clean disk. I got it twice. I think it had something to do with formating the swap partition. I will cut and paste the error below.. Lets see... It was on a Gateway P3-450 and the HD was a Quantum Fireball SE 3GB. Feel free to write for more details. doneal Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.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: 4972086 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84baef8> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 1 errno: 22 device: hda5 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>