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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Description of problem: An attempt was made to transfer a Redhat v9 system from a small drive to a new bigger drive. Making this new drive bootable seems to be impossible. Workaround tried: run an "upgrade" on top of the new drive, which might fix the non existent boot config. The swap partition is not initialised yet. The installer detects this, and instead of initialising swap, says "swap is uninitialised, press any key to reboot" instead. "Reboot" has to be the dumbest action imaginable at this point. Surely the most logical course of action is to... um... initialise the swap partition? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat v9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: xxx Additional info:
Initializing it could lead to data corruption if you just have the wrong partition listed -- rebooting and allowing you to fix up your system to have a correct fstab is the course of action least likely to have problems.
I have just run into this exact same problem with Fedora Core III, and yet again I get the message Error enabling swap device /dev/md3: invalid argument This most likely means the swap partition cannot be initialised. Press OK to reboot your system. Obviously nobody at Redhat actually ever installs Redhat, which leaves long suffering end users such as myself having to run into stupid stupid alternate use cases with stupid choices like "reboot". How does a "reboot" help me fix this problem? It's a brand new virgin system, what data do I have to lose? Surely *I* as the end user should be given the choice to reformat the swap filesystem if *I* so choose, rather than rebooting over and over again every time there is an error, obviously starting from scratch? Considering this is the fifth time I've rebooted (LVM in Fedora Core is entirely non functional, I have since tried to switch it off, but the system is still screwed), do you honestly think management who are looking over my shoulder at this system is ever going to consider a Redhat product if Redhat cannot even get the installer to work properly?