From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i586) Description of problem: Trying to update RH7.0 to RH7.1 doesn4t work because anaconda finds a partition with reiserfs wich is not the root of RH7.0! This results into anaconda using a wrong partition for the update which causes a reboot. My root is on hdeX and anaconda tries to use sdaY. I think the partition-array gets weird because of the found and unrecognized reiser-partion. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update ... booom 2. 3. Actual Results: s.o. Expected Results: Update :-) Additional info:
The installer doesn't support installing to ReiserFS partitions. Therefore, it doesn't support upgrading ReiserFS partitions...even if it's not the root partition.
I was a bit disappointed and i tried further: There is not only a problem with the reiser-partition. I added some mountpoints to /mnt like /mnt/cdwriter /mnt/dld /mnt/mandrake etc. These disks are mounted via fstab. Anaconda tries to mount them during the update of my root-partition (which isn't nessecary for my system neither defined in FHS) and fails with an error message like: Can not mount /dev/sdb5 to /mnt/cdwriter. sdb5 seems to be unformatted. REBOOT. The mountpoint exists and the partition is ok. I solved it temporarily by shortening the /etc/fstab but it is not a real solution (btw. the reiserpartition is used by another LINUX and is NOT used in the RH7-fstab. So i do not understand why it is ok that RH7.1-Update must not work! To get the update workinng i changed the partitiontype to Netware temporaily.).
The problem is solved! Sorry but it was my fault! Problem history: Because of my IDE-CDROM i used ide-scsi-emulation which causes my adaptec-drives to /dev/sdbX. After rebooting with RH7.1-CD there is no IDE-SCSI-Emulation and adaptec-drives are at /dev/sdaX. Now /etc/fstab and the physical drives are not identical! Thats it!
Ok. Glad you found the source of the problem.