From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040924 Description of problem: CD installation of FC4. I get to the point where it's writing the partition table and formatting the partitions, and the installation fails immediately with the following error message. error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hda3 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hda3 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This is from a CD install. I put in the Fedora Core 4 disc #1 and booted. At the boot prompt, I type "mediacheck," which gets an error, of course. I then type "linux mediacheck" and check the CD, which passes. I then start the install. The initial Q&A goes normally: keyboard, mouse, language, and I choose "workstation install." Then, I get to partitioning. This machine is a dual boot machine with a 10 GB WinXP partition, a 100 MB /boot partition, a 10 GB Linux partition (RedHat WS) and a 50 GB VFAT parition. I choose "remove all Linux partitions" and I choose "automatically partition." The partitioning scheme it chooses is: hda1 NTFS (WinXP) hda2 /boot hda3 LVM PV (10 GB) hda4 extended hda5 VFAT 50 GB hda6 VFAT 102 MB There are two logical volumes made from the PV, namely swap (1GB) and / (9GB). Everything looks fine, though I find hda6 somewhat puzzling. The 50GB vfat partition is intended to be shared between the two OSes. We then continue on through setting the bootloader password, confirming DHCP, declining a firewall, setting root password, and selecting packages (I chose the default). All of which proceeds normally; I've done this dozens of times. Next, we get to the climactic point of no return, and I click on "go ahead." The error then happens *immediately*, and it says: error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hda3 - Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hda3 until you reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. I get two options: ignore or cancel. If I choose ignore, the installation fails anyhow. No changes were made to the partitions, since I'm able to boot into the old system normally. I set up the partitions by myself once, and got the same error, so it's not the automatic partitioning that fails. If I recall correctly, if I use a rescue CD, and delete all the linux partitions and then tell it to use the free space, I think that works. If it's important, I'll try this, but I want to post this bug before too much time passes. Note that the code is running on a Gateway 4100; I don't know if it's hardware-dependent. Actual Results: I get two options: ignore or cancel. If I choose ignore, the installation fails anyhow. I get a chance to save the system state to a floppy; I've attached that below. No changes were made to the partitions, since I'm able to boot into the old system normally. Expected Results: It should have said "formatting / " and then started installing packages. Additional info:
It offered me the option to save the state to a floppy, which I did. However, when I try to open (say, with Emacs) or copy the file, I get an I/O error, and I only get 16384 bytes out of 873158 (if the byte counts can be trusted). I've attached that anacdump.txt file.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160693 ***