Bug 58886
| Summary: | kernel install failed using software raid | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jim Wright <jwright> | ||||||||
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Adrian Likins <alikins> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | gafton, mihai.ibanescu, srevivo | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2003-05-22 12:43:38 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
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Created attachment 43617 [details]
/boot/grub/grub.conf
Created attachment 43618 [details]
/etc/lilo.conf
Created attachment 43619 [details]
/etc/raidtab
I keep telling you guys that grub is evil. :) and I just noticed that up2date updated the grub.conf file and not the lilo.conf file. is that worth a separate bugzilla? This should be fixed in the next version of the client. (checkbootloader.py updates). Verified by creating an /etc/lilo.conf, running /sbin/lilo, and doing an up2date kernel last week I ran up2date in graphical mode to install the 2.4.18-17.7.x kernel. several good things. /etc/lilo.conf was updated correctly. and the system handled the software raid mirroring correctly. looks like this one can be closed. closing bug. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13 i686) Description of problem: ran graphical up2date to install kernel-2.4.9-21 and friends. I have software raid to mirror all my partitions. the drives are on a pci ide card (since the via ide on the motherboard sucks). the installer bombed trying to find /dev/hda. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. well, i'll only try it once so it is kind of every time. Actual Results: % up2date Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 786, in doInstallation up2date.installBootLoader(kernelsToInstall) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2date.py", line 2148, in installBootLoader bootloader = checkbootloader.whichBootLoader() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/checkbootloader.py", line 45, in whichBootLoader fd = os.open(bootDev, os.O_RDONLY) OSError: [Errno 6] No such device or address: '/dev/hda' Expected Results: blissful silence, and everything works. Additional info: the progress bars for both the package and the total transfer both show 100%. The package I believe it was trying to install when it bombed was /var/spool/up2date/kernel-source-2.4.9-21.i386.rpm. the only active button on the user interface is "cancel". and of course I don't know at this point if the install was successful or not. (but I suspect it was.) I see a fundamental flaw in the logic. /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/checkbootloader.py looks to see if /boot/grub/grub.conf exists, and if it does then the code assumes I am using grub. I do not use grub, when I installed I asked for lilo to be used, and apparently the installer dropped the grub stuff in anyway. (since I asked for "everything" to be installed.)