Description of problem: Downloaded FC2 from bittorrent (four CDs) and tried to upgrade FC1. Immediately after answering the "Upgrade an Existing Installation" page, I receive the error above, requiring a reboot (only option allowed). I found a note about LCD monitors requiring the boot option "nofb", same result. Trying graphical install mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from Fedora Core 2, CD1 2. give all default answers 3. error occurs every time at the same point: "Upgrade an existing installion Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Does your swap partition still exist as /dev/hda2? What does your /etc/fstab contain?
Yes, the partition still exists as I can reboot into Fedora Core 1 without complaint. Fstab contains: LABEL=/SYS / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 I don't understand why anaconda thinks the swap partition is hda2. HDA2 should be the /boot partition. HDA4 contains everything else. __________ Mike P
Any progress on this investigation? Fedora Core 1 is running with this configuration right now and quite happy about these settings. Any reason that Core 2 would not like this arrangement? The system has one physical disk drive with a simplified partition structure: /dev/hda hda1 1 13 102 ext3 hda2 14 268 2000 ext3 hda3 269 395 996 linux-swap hda4 396 4863 35048 Extended hda5 396 4863 35048 ext3 _______ Mike P
I had the same problem and found that reinitializing my swap partitions and swap files fixed the problem. Specifically, for each swap partition/file, I did: swapoff <path> mkswap <path> swapon <path> The mkswap man page indicates that there are 2 styles of swap areas. I guessing that mine were the "old" style until I reinitialized them with mkswap. Anaconda should probably detect this situation and upgrade the swap areas on the fly.
Ok, this didn't change the result at all. I followed the steps above to reinitialize the swap space and forced /dev/hda3 to be -v1 (new format) with the command 'mkswap -v1 /dev/hda3'. Anaconda still thinks that the /dev/hda2 is the swap and (rightly) claims it is not initialized. Hda2 contains the boot partition data. The exact error message is "Error enabling swap device hda2: Invalid argument". It only give one possible avenue out of this, reboot the system. The swap partition is in hda3. I listed the single disk structure and the fstab contents in previous replies. The swap partition was originally created by Red Hat Linux 9 and upgraded about a year ago to Fedora Core 1 with subsequent patches from Red Hat patch service to keep it fully up to date. Is there a big difference between Core 1 with patches and Core 2? ______ Mike P
I am experiencing the same problem: I have: hde1 1 13 102 ext3 hde2 14 9664 75705 ext3 hde3 9665 9729 510 linux-swap I get the error: Error enabling swap device hdg3. No such file or directory NOTE: I do not have a device hdgX. I have hd<b>e</b> My installation is Core 1 and also fully updated. I have tried noprobe, text, C3boot-2.iso. Everything stops at exactly the same place. Gary W. Sherwin
Well, Now I am feeling realy stupid. All that was wrong, was the incorrect hdg3 enty in fstab. Fixing that corrected the problem! Thank you so much for your assistance
Hey, Jeremy Katz! Any progress or updates on this issue to report? Can anyone offer anything new to investigate or try? Anaconde still thinks the swap partition is in the wrong place (see previous entries in this bug report series). Any advice or tricks would be greatly appreciated! ___________ Mike P
Jeremy, I can not upgrade my Fedora Core 1 system to Fedora Core 2 because the Anaconde installer complains that the swap partition is not initialized. It thinks the swap partition is on the wrong place still. I have reinitialized the swap partition to the the new format, inspected the fstab file and checked the disk partitions carefully using Linux and non-Linux tools. I need your help in further diagnosis of this issue. Please provide me with an small list of additional things to check, reset, or investigate. I would appreciate any guidance toward remedying this. I can't complete the upgrade to Fedora Core 2 as it stands now. Thanks for your help with with. ___________ Mike Pullen
You can close this problem ticket now because my system crashed during Hurricane Ivan and corrupted the boot disk to the point it is not repairable. As I have to reinstall everything from scratch, I'll use the opportunity to jump to Core 2. Thanks for the suggetions and advice, even though they did not actually resolve the problem directly. ______ Mike P