Bug 64118

Summary: Receive "error mounting hda8 Invalid Argument" when the about to install packages screen is entered (next button hit)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <yodual>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2002-04-25 21:49:07 UTC Type: ---
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This is what the install said to "save to Floppy" none

Description Need Real Name 2002-04-25 21:46:35 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I am installing this system (redhat linux 7.0) on a system which has a MAXTOR 
7400 40 gig drive on it. I am using half the drive for windows and want to use 
the rest for linux. I have installed this package on this system before and 
everything went fine, so I suspect the drive has something to do with it. 
The system gave me an option to write the system state to floppy and I did ,but 
what do I do with it?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.do the install , when you get to the 'loading packages' (the computer riped 
up with a guy inside I get this message.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  The system shuts down, and then restarts. Since there is no 
operating system it just starts again.

Expected Results:  I should be running linux

Additional info:

This is what I get displayed after the failure............

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, 
in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in 
doInstall
    self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 713, in 
mountFilesystems
    raise SystemError, (errno, msg)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
size: 4096512
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 842a7c0>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: hda8
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

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Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-04-25 21:49:03 UTC 
Created attachment 55369 [details]
This is what the install said to "save to Floppy"
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-04-26 16:06:34 UTC 
Very sorry, my fault (I guess), My wife came hiome and said that I needed to 
format the disk, with 'block checking' .. when that was selected everything 
worked fine.
My appologies.............