Bug 2920
| Summary: | "mount failed: Device or resource busy" during installation | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jason Bucata <jbucata> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | jbucata |
| 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: | 1999-07-07 15:30:13 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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Description
Jason Bucata
1999-05-19 02:23:49 UTC
I tried removing my /boot partition from /etc/fstab altogether, placing boot files in the boot directory under / (where the partition had once been mounted). This didn't change anything; I still get the error. I have a *lot* of other partitions; I don't want to have to somehow remove all of them to get this upgrade to work (if it came to that, I'd take the opportunity to repartition anyhow, and do a complete reinstall). It is not possible to perform a hard drive installation/upgrade to the same partition that the source files are located in, otherwise you will receive the error that is described in this posting. If by "source files" you mean the RPMs, I'm upgrading from a Linux Central CD-ROM with a boot floppy. I'm not doing a hard drive install. I looked back at the original comment, and yes, it appears that that problem was from a hard drive install (and therefore yet another duplicate of bug 2504, reported several times here). This one isn't, however. I tried it again, and when I got to the point where it complained, I went over to bash, and I simply ran "umount /mnt" (where /dev/hda6 had been mounted), and it worked fine after that. |