Description of problem: during installation I used 'create custom layout' with /dev/sda6 for / and "format as: ext3" installation fails (see bug # ) After this /dev/sda6 can't be mounted using mount -t ext3 /dev/sda6 /media (mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda6, ...) but only with: mount -t ext4 /dev/sda6 /media Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.install system 2.use create custom layout 3.format partition as ext3 Actual results: partition is ext4 Expected results: partition is ext3 Additional info: in log: EXT3-fs: sda6: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240). EXT3-fs: sda6: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240). EXT4-fs: barriers enabled kjournald2 starting: pid 11783, dev sda6:8, commit interval 5 seconds EXT4 FS on sda6, internal journal on sda6:8 EXT4-fs: delayed allocation enabled EXT4-fs: file extents enabled EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled EXT4-fs: mounted filesystem sda6 with ordered data mode SELinux: initialized (dev sda6, type ext4), uses xattr
Was this a livecd install?
I reproduced this bug this morning, similar scenario. This was a livecd install of the 64 bit F11 beta. I chose "create custom layout", created / as ext3, did not create a /boot partition, and chose not to install a boot loader. The install failed at the end trying to mount the / partition. On a related note, I didn't actually want to choose ext3, but the installer insisted that I could not create / as ext4, since it refused to make ext4 a bootable partition. That makes sense, however this was a custom layout and I did not want / to be bootable. Later on I was planning to uncheck the bootloader in the installer, since I wanted to leave my /boot partition alone.
(In reply to comment #1) > Was this a livecd install? yes, F11 KDE Live cd 64 bit
Yeah, this was a problem with the livecd that we ran into shortly after the beta was released. Jeremy fixed it up the other day, but unfortunately you will have to wait for another livecd to be produced in order to see the fix. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 493206 ***