From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 Description of problem: Install fails when anaconda tries "swapon" and there are already existing swap-partitions (version 0) from other distributions. The message was "Please reboot" (or something, sorry, don't remember). Suggestion: When anaconda looks for swap-partitions to activate, make sure they are compatible with the current kernel. Make anaconda only activate "version 1+" swap-partitions if it finds any, and if none is found ask to initialize "version 0" swaps and tell user it might cause a problem with previously installed distributions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have an 2.4-based distribution already installed on a system 2. Make sure it has a "version 0" swap-partition 3. Try to install FC2t3 Actual Results: Dialog that asks me to reboot and try installing again. Expected Results: Start of package installation Additional info:
Arjan -- did we lose support for these in the kernel?
Correct. From http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt - Version zero swap partitions are no longer supported (everything is using v1 now anyway - rerun mkswap if in doubt). Linux 2.0.x requires v0 swap space, Linux v2.1.117 and later support v1. mkswap(8) can format swap space in either format.
Added support to ignore version 0 swaps.