Bug 5502
| Summary: | RH 6.0 upgrade can't mount RH 5.2 partitions | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | walt |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | srevivo, walt |
| 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: | 2000-02-24 14:07:46 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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What does "No email for Bug #5502" mean? I've changed from "walt" to "walt" Walt I have been trying to come up with a solution for your problem and came across something interesting. In the partition table above, you show that hda2 goes from cylinder 602-1024 and that your extended partition goes from cylinder 68-1023. I am not able to replicate this partitioning table using Disk Druid not fdisk, so I am not sure how you were able to get this table. If you do indeed have this partition table on your machine, then I would have to assume this is the case of your problems. The installer is mounting the hda2 partition and then trying to mount the stuff within the extended partition and that is causing a conflict due to the overlap. Let me know whether this is a valid partition table. If it is not, please submit the correct partition table. If it is correct then we have found the problem and there is really nothing that I can offer. This is not valid drive geometry and therefore the installer has no way to deal with it. Closing this bug due to lack of activity. |
I'm running RedHat 5.2 on an AMD K6-2/333, 128MB RAM, 8.3GB disk, partitioned like this: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1046 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 64 514048+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 602 1024 3397747+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 65 67 24097+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 68 1023 7679070 5 Extended /dev/hda5 68 84 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 85 101 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 102 165 514048+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda8 166 293 1028128+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda9 294 421 1028128+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda10 422 485 514048+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda11 486 498 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda12 499 511 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda13 512 524 104391 83 Linux native /dev/hda14 525 537 104391 83 Linux native /dev/hda15 538 601 514048+ 83 Linux native and mounted like this: # cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda14 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda13 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /wind vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda15 /opt2 ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda12 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,user 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/dosfloppy msdos noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 /opt3 ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 When I boot RedHat 6.0 (from the Linux System Labs RedHat 6.0 CDROM, from the Achilles 6.0 CDROM, or from floppy using boot.img from the Achilles 6.0 CDROM), and tell it I want to Upgrade (not Install), it asks me about my SCSI controller, we agree on it being an Adaptec 1542 (where my tape unit lives), then, it tells me "mount failed: Device or resource busy" 19 times (I click "OK" every time, because that's the only button it shows me), then asks me where my root partition is. I select /dev/hda7 (where I mount /), and click "OK". It again says "mount failed: Device or resource busy". I lose. When I boot from my hard drive again (back to RH5.2), it decides it has to fsck /dev/hda7,even though I shut down RH5.2 gently, so I guess the upgrade attempt did touch /dev/hda7. Why can't it mount my partitions? What can I do about it? Will I have to do an Install, then restore my files from tape, or will the install process have trouble with my disk, too? Walt -- Walt Sullivan UNIX & Networks, Security & SysAdmin walt