Bug 492727
| Summary: | [anaconda] aborts because liveinst accepts ext3 for root volume but formats as ext4 | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Joachim Frieben <jfrieben> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, bjrosen, bugproxy, frigaut, hebert.bernardo, hez, jscotka, kilolima, M8R-7fin56, mhlavink, mila.kuchta, pjones, pvtpuddin, rmaximo, usdanskys, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vinagr3 | ||||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-04-02 16:23:46 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Joachim Frieben
2009-03-28 22:02:53 UTC
*** Bug 493139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 493224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 493374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** We used to do the changing behind the user's back (eg, if you selected ext2 instead of ext3). With the storage rewrite, we seem to have lost that. On the plus side, it's now a little easier to actually check in the sanity checking and give you an indication when you do your installation that you need to select ext4 (or whatever the live image is) instead. Patch to do so sent for comments, should be in rawhide in a day or three *** Bug 493206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 493461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Thanks for looking into this Jeremy. I've found a little information that may or may no help you. I created an ext3 partition using fdisk and mke2fs, and I ran Anaconda and told it not to format the partition, but just to mount / to it, and it still managed to try converting it to ext4 unsuccessfully. I don't understand how it does that if it's not supposed to be formatting anything. same here: I formatted the root partition in ext3 from another linux distro (using gparted). Then I install, but asked it *not* to format the "/" partition. I got the same "can't mount" error at the end of the install, and checking back, the partition is now appearing as ext4. So it formatted it, or changed it to ext4 somehow. (In reply to comment #7) > I don't understand how it does that if it's not supposed to be formatting > anything. You can't not do a format of the rootfs with the live install -- the way the live install works is that we copy over the rootfs from the livecd as a direct block copy and then resize to fill the size you wanted. So if you do a non-live install, you don't have to format? Does the DVD do non-live installs? I haven't really used Fedora extensively since before the LiveCDs came out. Could there be another way to do the install? Being a Gentoo user, you download a tarball and extract it to your rootfs, and really all it does is dump all the files and directories onto it. Couldn't Fedora just do something like that? So instead of formatting the filesystem, just dump the files onto it? Is there anything that Anaconda does that would make this impossible? Fixed in git Is there a rawhide ISO built with the fix implemented? *** Bug 493948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 494050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Created attachment 338337 [details]
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Created attachment 338338 [details]
anaconda log before this call trace
*** Bug 495234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 496465 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 497060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This is not fixed. Fedora 11 liveCD. :( |