Bug 42710

Summary:	Update not possible
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Dirk Traenapp <d.traenapp>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Dirk Traenapp 2001-05-29 14:27:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
Trying to update RH7.0 to RH7.1 doesn4t work because anaconda finds a
partition with reiserfs wich is not the root of RH7.0! This results into
anaconda using a wrong partition for the update which causes a reboot. My
root is on hdeX and anaconda tries to use sdaY. I think the partition-array
gets weird because of the found and unrecognized reiser-partion.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update ... booom
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  s.o.

Expected Results:  Update :-)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-05-29 16:18:13 UTC

The installer doesn't support installing to ReiserFS partitions.  Therefore, it
doesn't support upgrading ReiserFS partitions...even if it's not the root partition.

Comment 2 Dirk Traenapp 2001-05-30 09:59:48 UTC

I was a bit disappointed and i tried further:

There is not only a problem with the reiser-partition. I added some mountpoints to /mnt like /mnt/cdwriter /mnt/dld /mnt/mandrake etc. These disks are 
mounted via fstab. Anaconda tries to mount them during the update of my root-partition (which isn't nessecary for my system neither defined in FHS) and 
fails with an error message like: Can not mount /dev/sdb5 to /mnt/cdwriter. sdb5 seems to be unformatted. REBOOT.

The mountpoint exists and the partition is ok. I solved it temporarily by shortening the /etc/fstab but it is not a real solution (btw. the reiserpartition is 
used by another LINUX and is NOT used in the RH7-fstab. So i do not understand why it is ok that RH7.1-Update must not work! To get the update 
workinng i changed the partitiontype to Netware temporaily.).

Comment 3 Dirk Traenapp 2001-05-31 07:06:37 UTC

The problem is solved! Sorry but it was my fault!

Problem history:

Because of my IDE-CDROM i used ide-scsi-emulation which causes my adaptec-drives
to /dev/sdbX. After rebooting with RH7.1-CD there is no IDE-SCSI-Emulation and
adaptec-drives are at /dev/sdaX. Now /etc/fstab and the physical drives are not
identical!

Thats it!

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-05-31 19:04:45 UTC

Ok.  Glad you found the source of the problem.