Description of problem: During the final step of the installation using anaconda, the following error is displayed after the package selection when you hit "next" to begin formatting the drives: "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/hdc1 - device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hdc1 util reboot - so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before booting." The /dev/hdc is a removable 240gb IDE drive that is formatted ext3 into two 120gb partitions /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc2. The only solution so far has been to reinstall everything but do not format the removeable drive. The primary drive /dev/hda is a 40gb IDE drive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.11-1.1369, rpm-4.4.1-21, anaconda-10.2.1.5-2 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Begin the installation of Fedora Core using anaconda 2. Format dirves manually using disk druid. The first drive /dev/hda is a 40gb IDE drive that is formatted as follows: /dev/ha1 = /boot =102mb, dev/hda2 = /usr = 10236mb, /dev/hda3 = /var = 5122mb, /dev/hda4 = extended partition, /dev/hda5 = / = 5122mb, /dev/hda6 = /home = 5122mb, /dev/hda7 = /tmp = 1024mb, dev/hda8 = swap = 777mb, /dev/hda9 = /opt = 10652mb 3. Formatted manually the second rive a remoavble 240gb IDE as follows: /dev/hdc1 = /bkup/mis = 115091mb, /dev/hdc2 = bkup/001 = 123382mb 4. Custom installed network setting, firewall (allowed ssh), LinuxSE, time zone and various packages the hit "next" to the screen before the step of the installation. 5. hit "next" to begin the final installation and the system hangs for a few minutes then displays the error mention in the description. Actual results: Received the error message mentioned in the "Description" andI saved the dump to a floppy disk and rebooted and ran the install again with the same error even when I tried to create one partition on the second drive. Finally had to run through the setup again but the last time I did not format or partition the second hard drive. Expected results: Fedora Core 4 should have formatted the second removable drive into two partions as it had when it was formatted with Fedora Core 3 and finished with the installation and rebooted. Additional info: I will submit the crash report once the bugreport has been filed. Also the machine is a Dell optiplex 260 Pentium 4 2,80ghz 521 memory. The hard drives are both Western Digital. The Removable case is a Store Caes Technology.
Created attachment 121399 [details] anaconda text dump report
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