Bug 68637
Summary: | Installer crashes immediately following format of / partition while using the GUI installer. | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Need Real Name <caretaker> | ||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | limbo | ||||||
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: | 2002-07-17 01:40:20 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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Bug Blocks: | 67217 | ||||||
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Description
Need Real Name
2002-07-11 22:15:25 UTC
Created attachment 65004 [details]
anaconda dump file
Alright, an update to this issue. I have found what may be the issue here. The way I had the box listed above formatted was as such: sda: 512MB Swap, 75MB /boot, the remainder of the drive as /. All partitions marked to be formatted. sdb: Entire drive was fdisked to be fd (Linux Raid Autodetect). Not formatted. sdc: Entire drive was fdisked to be fd (Linux Raid Autodetect). Not formatted. I went back and tried the install again, except this time, I selected the drives to be autopartitioned. I put a 512MB swap on all three both drives, and the remainder of sdb, and sdc became /home and /var respectively (I manually chose those). The partitions all formatted, and VOILA! The install image succesfully transfered to the drive and the remainder of the install went without a hitch. I have since repeated the process (with multiple partitioning scenarios on sdb and sdc) and have so far had a 100% success rate. My question is this, I have always done my Linux servers the way I listed in my previous post, and have had no problems (the last version I had on this particular server was 7.2). What has changed since then, if anything? From the untrained eye, emphasis on the word untrained, it looks like the installer is trying to transfer the image to the volume with the largest amount of free space, and not the volume with the largest amount of formatted free space. I'm sure I'm totally off base and on crack, but I thought I'd throw that out there.:) |