Bug 6038
Summary: | You don't have any Linux partitions. You can't upgrade this system! -reported on SCSI system with linux partitions | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | peter.lofgren |
Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.1 | CC: | srevivo |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1999-10-21 19:29:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
peter.lofgren
1999-10-18 08:16:12 UTC
Don't know whether this is a mistype of what, but one problem is that the swap partition that you have listed below is of type ext2 and should be of type swap. Now, from the other messages that you attached, I cannot tell what the problem is. The system is seeing all of your partitions and therefore should be able to find the existing installation and should perform the upgrade on those partitions. Send me more error output and let me know where you are seeing the problem. The ext2 for swap was a typo, it is 'swap' in my fstab. The error message 'You don't have any Linux partitions. You can't upgrade this system!' is seen right after I choose the upgrade option. Have tried to find any additional error messages for you, but this is all thats printed on the tty's. Is there any additional place to look? This is the only additional output (tty4) that I've seen hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: ATAPI reset complete Also tried to set sda1 (/boot) as active, none of the partions where set as active. Didn't help. Also, the 'DOS-large disk option' in the adaptec bios is disabled (have tried both settings) Since the system is able to swapon my sda2 swap space, I guess the installer is seing my SCSI disk. It is also correctly reported in disk druid choosing custom install (without going any further). My theory: All the original partitioning was done using Partion Magic 4.01. Using fdisk, and the p option list the partition id as 83, and 82 for swap. But the extended partition is type f - win95, where the root partition is enclosed. You think it might help if changed to 85 Linux extended, or 5 Extended. How do i go about, and change it, and what security measures should I take? Some additional info on my system disk gemoetry (C/H/S) (1111/255/63) reported by disk druid Award Modular Bios 4.51PG 1st Mainboard, intel 440BX Adaptec AHA2940U2W v2.20.0 (upgraded from v2.01, tried upgrading before and after) As you've guessed, the problem is that the extended partition type is set to '0f' (Windows Extended) instead of '05' (plain Extended). Anaconda (the installer in 6.1) specifically only looks for extended partitions inside a type '05' primary partition. One person here (with this problem) experienced no problems in simply changing the partition type from 0f to 05. In general, I suspect that Anaconda's disk partition parsing is fragile. Perhaps in future releases, RedHat should just copy the code from fdisk or the like (even if it is larger). Curious people can look in misc/src/anaconda/balkan/dos.c on the install image for the gory details. |