Bug 7742

Summary:	Upgrade 6.0->6.1 fails, if there are partitions without file system
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	radoje <radoje.micic>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	srevivo
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description radoje 1999-12-10 21:34:21 UTC

I tried to upgrade RH 6.0 to 6.1, but it fails during 'analyzing installed
system' with anaconda&python messages saying, that it can't mount /dev/hda8
because of '... bad parameters' or something like this. After this,
installations exited.
It is true, partition /dev/hda8 on my system contains no file system and
have never been mounted normaly, because it contains raw data chunk used by
Informix database server.
I worked arround the problem by 'mkfs ' un that partition (destroying
database, of course). However, it is not commonly acceptable solution :-(

Comment 1 radoje 1999-12-15 15:20:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5618 ***