Bug 38348 - install failed on formatting Maxtor 54098H8 partition
Summary: install failed on formatting Maxtor 54098H8 partition
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-29 23:58 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-05-14 18:50:09 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-04-29 23:58:48 UTC
On my secondary Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB) drive, I have eight partitions.  I 
set aside a 4GB primary partition (hdb1 I think) for the Linux "/" mount 
and an ~300MB extended partition (hdb9 I think) for the Linux swap.  I 
requested that the install format and check the "/" partition.  When the 
installation began to format the "/" partition, it failed and gave the 
following dump below.  Something odd was that it took a minite or so 
before failing.  There was a progress bar for the format task, and the 
hard disk light was showing activity, but the the bar never went past 0%, 
and it finally failed.  

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 520, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in 
__call__
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1773, in 
doInstall
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 181, 
in mergeFullHeaders
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 103, 
in mountMedia
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 141, 
in mountDirectory
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 120, in mount
    rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
fstype: vfat
location: /tmp/isodir
devName: /tmp/hdb9
readOnly: 1
device: /tmp/hdb9

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Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-04-30 15:17:57 UTC
Do you have any FAT partitions that you gave mount points to?

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-04-30 16:48:24 UTC
Yes.  I gave mount points to an ~20MB FAT partition on hdb, three FAT paritions 
on hda, and an NTFS partition on hdb.  These drives were named /drives/xxx, 
where "xxx" dependend on the drive.  However, I didn't choose to format any of 
these.

-david

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2001-04-30 16:48:59 UTC
Correction, "20GB" partition.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-05-01 16:02:35 UTC
Try doing the install without giving mount points for these FAT partitions.  Are
these FAT16 or FAT32?

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2001-05-14 18:50:03 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  Please reopen if you have more information.


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