Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 18481
installation failuer
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:29:01 EDT
I've partitioned my disk with fdisk, but when I got to the formatting step, it complained that it does not see the partitioned that I have created with fdisk. Note however, that it has seen them before because I've set up the mount point and all... Indeed, I've shitched to the shell console, and ls /dev did not list those partitions. Here is the backtrace that I've got: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 713, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 19430617 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84b94b8> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 1 errno: 22 device: hdb3 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
Created attachment 3822 [details] backtrace as save by anaconda
Did you format the '/' partition? The device files for the partitions are created as required in the /tmp directory, which is why you didn't see them in /dev.
No, I did NOT format / -- the HD I installed to was brand new, so I fdisk-ed it, and proceeded with the install. When the installation process got to the point where it tried to format (or install the swap space, I forget), it craped out on me. A reboot solved the problem, becuase this time the disk was already partitioned.
Passed to QA to verify this issue: Take a hard drive and wipe the partitioning table to all zeros. Partition the drive as indicated in this report, and see if this problem is reproduced.
hmmm ... we are unable to reproduce this problem w/generic test lab hardware (trying what was described above, zero-ing out the entire drive and then partitioning as described above) what kind of drive do you have ...?
Please reopen this report if you continue to have problems.