Bug 51616

Summary:	Hard disk upgrade requires disk to be FAT filesystem
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <omega>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	copeland, omega
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Description Need Real Name 2001-08-13 03:03:31 UTC

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Description of problem:
When attempting to upgrade my Multia, I found that not only does it now
require the ISO images, but it requires the filesystem to be a FAT
filesystem (ONLY).  This doesn't work when the ISO images reside on an ext2
partition.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place ISO images on an ext2 filesystem
2. Boot rh71 and choose hard-disk install
3. Attempt to use the filesystem that contains the ISO images
	

Actual Results:  Alt-F4 shows that "The filesystem does not contain a valid
VFAT filesystem"

Expected Results:  It should have mounted the filesystem with 'mount' and
let it figure out what kind of filesystem it is.  In lieu of that (I know
it uses the mount syscall() directly), it should at least attempt the other
common filesystem types.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-08-13 15:18:37 UTC

I tried a hard drive upgrade from an ext2 partition on an i386 box just the
other day, and it went fine.  

Bryce, have you tried this on any of your Alphas?  I can't imagine that this
could be a platform specific issue, but you never know.

Comment 2 Phil Copeland 2001-08-13 21:57:33 UTC

No idea....
I've never done an ISO HD install. Best person to ask would be Broock

Comment 3 Matt Wilson 2001-08-20 14:26:20 UTC

we don't have the luxary of the normal "mount" command, we call the syscall
directly.  We use the partition type (0x83, 0xe, etc) to determine the
filesystem to attempt to mount as.  Is the type on the partition 0x83 (or 0x8
for BSD disklabel)

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-09-19 18:57:22 UTC

Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.