Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51616
Hard disk upgrade requires disk to be FAT filesystem
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:47 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8 i686) Description of problem: When attempting to upgrade my Multia, I found that not only does it now require the ISO images, but it requires the filesystem to be a FAT filesystem (ONLY). This doesn't work when the ISO images reside on an ext2 partition. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Place ISO images on an ext2 filesystem 2. Boot rh71 and choose hard-disk install 3. Attempt to use the filesystem that contains the ISO images Actual Results: Alt-F4 shows that "The filesystem does not contain a valid VFAT filesystem" Expected Results: It should have mounted the filesystem with 'mount' and let it figure out what kind of filesystem it is. In lieu of that (I know it uses the mount syscall() directly), it should at least attempt the other common filesystem types. Additional info:
I tried a hard drive upgrade from an ext2 partition on an i386 box just the other day, and it went fine. Bryce, have you tried this on any of your Alphas? I can't imagine that this could be a platform specific issue, but you never know.
No idea.... I've never done an ISO HD install. Best person to ask would be Broock
we don't have the luxary of the normal "mount" command, we call the syscall directly. We use the partition type (0x83, 0xe, etc) to determine the filesystem to attempt to mount as. Is the type on the partition 0x83 (or 0x8 for BSD disklabel)
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