From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) Description of problem: In an upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1, I inadvertantly chose my / partition as /dev/hda5 when it is in fact /dev/hda6. The error message told me it could not find a Red Hat installation on /dev/hdd5 instead of saying hdda5. (I have gone back and selected the correct partition. I do not need assistance, just wanted to report the bug.) How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Weird. Is there even a /dev/hdd device in the machine?
No, but it just ocurred to me - hda5 used to be a root partition before a prior install. At one point I chose new install instead of upgrade and saved my old partition. Could it have read the etc/fstab from there which contains /dev/hdd5 as / (I had a drive on hdd while copying to my new harddrive a couple years ago). If so, I guess the error makes sense.