Bug 5552 - anaconda malfunction in upgradeFindRoot
Summary: anaconda malfunction in upgradeFindRoot
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 5567
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: python
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-05 02:04 UTC by mathew
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-05 21:26:20 UTC
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Description mathew 1999-10-05 02:04:30 UTC
One of my systems is dual-boot
   /dev/sda1 NT 4.0
   /dev/sdb2 Linux ext2fs (redhat 6.0)

While attempting to install, the error "sda1 incorrect
parameter" locks the install process.

With some investifation, I find that it has
mknoded /tmp/sda and /tmp/sda1 (the NTFS part)
I am not a python programmer, but from what I can see,
the "else:" on line 1120 of todo.py seems to have fallen in
with the wrong "if".  It is indented, but with [TAB]'s and
that would explain the behavior I see...

by my roconing, the program enters line 1116 with drive
equal to 'sda' .  Then when the program determines that the
part is of type 4, not 2, it skips to line 1120.  Next it
creates '/tmp/' + '0(first time through)+1' = '/tmp/sda1'
When it attempts to mount this FS to grab the /etc/fstab,
it dies :(

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrød 1999-10-05 11:59:59 UTC
Here is a patch, which should apply to bugs 5507, 5555, 5563, 5552 and
5567 (making changes to several of these at once didn't work).

A break statement is missing after detecting a NTFS-partition, thus
identifying it as an EXT2FS-partition.
--- /mnt/cdrom/misc/src/anaconda/balkan/dos.c   Sat Sep 11 17:47:28
1999
+++ dos.c       Tue Oct  5 13:34:16 1999
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@

              case 0x7:
                table->parts[i].type = BALKAN_PART_NTFS;
+               break;

              case 0x83:
                table->parts[i].type = BALKAN_PART_EXT2;

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-05 21:26:59 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5567 ***


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