Bug 214089 - UPGRADE installation proceeds fine with "ext3 conversion" selected - after installation first reboot hangs with "can't load /lib/ext3.ko..." - no rootfs mountable...
Summary: UPGRADE installation proceeds fine with "ext3 conversion" selected - after in...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 6
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-05 17:00 UTC by Kim Muma
Modified: 2008-05-06 16:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:42:40 UTC
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Description Kim Muma 2006-11-05 17:00:12 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrade of AMD-Athlon machine from Fc5 to FC6 (Release), kernel cannot
mount ext3 (/, or /boot), therefore ends up not being able to mount anything -
ext3.ko , or jbd.ko not in default installation initrd-image?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC6-Release

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade FC5 to FC6 - choose upgrade "/boot" and "/" filesystems to ext3
2. Proceed with upgrade
3. try to boot with newly upgraded system -> hang because "ext.ko and jbd.ko"
can't be loaded...
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Eric Sandeen 2006-12-08 20:47:16 UTC
Guessing this is either anaconda or mkinitrd's trouble, but it's not kernel...
First stop, anaconda.  :)

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:26:57 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:42:39 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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