From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) "Error Mounting hdb2: Invalid Argument Seems related to bugs 20574,26299, and 28192 I may not have formatted partitions beforehand Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Went through normal custom install of i386en from CDROM 2. 3. Actual Results: install fails with Anaconda dump errmsg: "Error Mounting hdb2: Invalid Argument"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 "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 102816 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446f90> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: hdb2 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Expected Results: Smooth continuation of installation 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 "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 102816 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446f90> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: hdb2 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
It appears you tried to mount /dev/hdb2 as '/' without formatting it first. You may want to try that, since we require a formatted partition for the install to work.
Looks like bug 16686.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***