Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 184472
Hard disk installs should mount source filesystems read-only
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:33 EDT
Description of problem: When doing a hard disk install, Anaconda should mount the "source" partition containing the ISOs file read only. This way the install will still go if the source filesystem was not umounted cleanly.
They should be getting mounted read-only... if (!doPwMount("/tmp/hddev", "/tmp/hdimage", *type, IMOUNT_RDONLY, NULL)) What error are you seeing?
Sorry, I mis-flagged the product and version. The problem was seen on RHEL4 and RHEL4 U2 (and relayed to me). Basically, a ext3 partition was used to store the ISO files. If a graceful shutdown/reboot was done, then Anaconda would use the ISO files for a hard drive install. If the machine was hard power cycled, then Anaconda would not use the ISO files. I don't have an error message available (I could get one though, if needed) Is the mount read-only something that has always been there, or is it a change since RHEL4 was released?
It looks like it's been there for quite a while (though we changed it from a hardcoded int to a flag at some point). If you could get the error message, that'd be really helpful. Also, finding out whether this happens on Fedora might be interesting too.
requested by Jams Antill
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug has been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days since feedback was first requested. As a result we are closing it. If you can reproduce this bug in the future against a maintained Fedora version please feel free to reopen it against that version. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp