From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: After confirming I want to continue to install using Fedora Disk #1 and #2 (should be nearly the final step I guess), a dialog showing the following message appeared: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hda1 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hda1 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. No matter I select 'Ignore' or 'Continue', the installer force me to reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Perform installation using the following options: 1. Language Selection: Default [English(English)] 2. Keyboard Configuration: Default [US English] 3. Mouse Configuration: 2 Button Mouse (PS/2) (Fedora wrongly recognized it as 3 Button) 4. Installation Type: Personal Desktop 5. Disk Partition Setup: Manual (see Additional Information) 6. Boot Loader Config: Default 7. Boot Loader Advanced Config: Default 8. Network Config: Default 9. Firewall Config: Default 10. Additional Language Support: Default 11. Time zone selection: Asia/Hong_Kong 12. Set Root Password: ******* 13. Package Installation Defaults: Default 14. Error occur after confirming installation Actual Results: Error message box appeared Expected Results: Installation continues Additional info: I doubt Fedora does not support my partition setup: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5606 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 580 4658818+ a5 FreeBSD /dev/hda2 581 988 3277260 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 * 989 1021 265072+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda4 1022 5606 36829012+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1022 1023 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1024 1913 7148893+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 1914 1984 570276 83 Linux /dev/hda8 1985 2495 4104576 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2496 3388 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hda10 3389 3519 1052226 4d QNX4.x /dev/hda11 3520 3620 811251 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda12 3621 4605 7911981 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda13 4606 5544 7542486 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda14 5545 5606 497983+ 82 Linux swap I told it to install / to hda8, swap to hda14, tried telling it to format and also tried telling it not to format. It warned me about the 1024 cylinder issue and I ignored it. Anyway, it shouldn't touch hda1
Created attachment 95949 [details] Anaconda dump file
Error with FreeBSD partition! I have /dev/hda4 with FreeBSD. I can't install Fedora!
I hate being a 'me too', but I also have that error, but it comes about in a different way. I have a machine with two very large raid arrays, so they look like two 1.5 Terrabye drives, both with just one large partition on them. They had already been partitioned before trying this install. I didn't do anything to them. I didn't assign the paritions names, or touch them in any way in disk druid, yet I got the same error as above, except that it says /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/hda1. In tracking this down and trying to find a way around it, I got into F2, and found that if I tried to repartition using parted, it just barfed if my partitions went above the 1 Terrabyte limit. But I was able to use fdisk just fine.
I also have this error, with a 1.5TB RAID5 array with a 3ware 8506-8 Serial ATA card. Get the same error as the first poster: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda1 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda1 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.same error as the first poster, with
Created attachment 97621 [details] Here is the dump file for the error I just described. Hope it helps.
Received same error almost to the letter as described in initial report. My error is also with FreeBSD partition. It's version 5.1. Interestingly enough I also have problem trying to Install RHL 9.0. I also have multiple partitions created, probably the same way as the initial report, using CFDISK to allow making 3 Primary Partitions, an Extended Partition and Multiple Logical Partitions. During Partitioning DiskDruid also complains but says error can be ignored and later on there is a warning about a Boot Sector problem which also can be ignored. Previously I had the FreeBSD on a physical Disk of it's own and Fedora installed without problems. No other Distro has a problem so it appears bug is somewhere in anaconda and DiskDruid.
Hello, More additions I'm afraid: we've had the same trouble at KNMI with: HP DL360 + BROWNIE U160SCSI/IDE RAID5 vault + RH7.3 DELL 2650 + DELL PV220s + RH9 HP XW6000 workstation + BROWNIE U160SCSI/IDE RAID5 vault + RHEL WS3.0 HP XW6000 workstation + BROWNIE U160SCSI/IDE RAID5 vault + RH9 Workaround always is to disconnect or poweroff the vault(s), do the install or kickstart, reboot/poweron the vaults. I agree that it is a bug in anaconda/DiskDruid. The only common factor at our site seems to be: RedHat/anaconda/RAID-vault/large filesystem with ext3.
This should be better in the devel tree now.