Bug 680310

Summary: does not detect raid-lvm installation
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Martin Jürgens <ma>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Version: 6.0CC: agk, dwysocha, heinzm, jbrassow, mbroz, prajnoha, prockai, thornber, zkabelac
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Description Martin Jürgens 2011-02-25 01:22:24 UTC
i have a RHEL 5.5 installation. during the setup i have created a software-raid 1 setup for /boot and /.

i tried to upgrade to RHEL 6, but it does not detect my installation ("The root for the previously installed system was not found"). also, the v6 rescue system is not able to automatically mount my partitions which works fine with 5.5. rescue system.

Comment 2 Martin Jürgens 2011-02-25 02:01:18 UTC
Created attachment 480904 [details]
syslog

Comment 3 Martin Jürgens 2011-02-25 02:01:44 UTC
Created attachment 480905 [details]
storage.log

Comment 4 Martin Jürgens 2011-02-25 02:03:28 UTC
i found out that in the storage log it says

01:49:32,587 WARNING : mount of mpatha as ext3 failed: mount failed: (9, None)

maybe this helps.

Comment 5 Martin Jürgens 2011-02-25 02:15:20 UTC
anaconda.log says:

01:49:32,565 INFO    : failed to set SELinux context for /mnt/sysimage: [Errno 95] Die Operation wird nicht unterstützt
01:49:32,566 DEBUG   : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /dev/mapper/mpatha on /mnt/sysimage as ext3 with options ro

Comment 6 David Cantrell 2011-02-26 02:20:49 UTC
Please see the installation guide.  Specifically section 37.1:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#ch-upgrade-x86

"Red Hat does not support upgrades from earlier major versions

Although anaconda provides an option for upgrading from earlier major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat does not currently support this. More generally, Red Hat does not support in-place upgrades between any major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (A major version is denoted by a whole number version change. For example, Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are both major versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.)

In-place upgrades across major releases do not preserve all system settings, services or custom configurations. Consequently, Red Hat strongly recommends fresh installations when upgrading from one major version to another."

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2011-02-26 02:34:54 UTC
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.