Bug 249392 - Swap partition not correctly identified during upgrade install
Summary: Swap partition not correctly identified during upgrade install
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2007-07-24 10:42 UTC by Ralf Kleineisel
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-24 11:03:39 UTC
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Description Ralf Kleineisel 2007-07-24 10:42:42 UTC
Description of problem:

I try to upgrade a FC6 box to F7 with the DVD. I boot from DVD, and after
choosing "Upgrade existing installation" (which is correctly found with root
filesystem on /dev/md3) I get the error message:

Error enabling swap device hda5: No such file or directory
The /etc/fstab on your upgrade partition does not reference a valid swap partition.
Press OK to reboot your system.

Changing to a shell with CTRL-ALT-F2 and doing "grep swap
/mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab" gives this:

LABEL=swapa    swap    swap    defaults   0 0
LABEL=swapb    swap    swap    defaults   0 0

/proc/swaps is empty.

The hard disks where the RAID partitions reside on are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. On
FC6 they were hda and hdb. All paretition are mounted via labels.

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


How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from installation DVD
2. Choose upgrade install
3.
  
Actual results:
Doens't install.

Expected results:
Swap partitions should be detected using their labels.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ralf Kleineisel 2007-07-24 11:03:39 UTC
OK, seems I got it.

The root filesystem was NOT detected correctly though it looked like that. It
had md2 and md3 as possible upgrade canditates. md3 was just a data partition,
no idea how that can be detected. The mounted sysimage was correct, though.

When choosing md2 for upgrading it works.


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