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Hello, When i try to upgrade my Comapq Armada 7800 from RH 6.0 to RH6.1. I get the following error about hda3 in a popup window. Error Mounting ext2 filesystem on hda3: Invalid argument. On tty4 is the following error: VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3). From then on the installer just halts and i can't continue. I tried expert and textmode. I tried putting hda3 in the fstab WITH the fs type ntfs but it didn't help. Here is the output of fdisk: [root@lt-sjr joker]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1058. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1058 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 2 15088+ 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/hda2 3 36 257040 83 Linux /dev/hda3 * 37 578 4097520 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda4 579 1058 3628800 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 579 787 1580008+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda6 788 801 105808+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 802 856 415768+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 857 1058 1527088+ 83 Linux The contents of fstab is as follows: /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 I added /dev/hda3 /mnt/ntfs ntfs noauto 0 0 If you need more info please ask. I would like to upgrade this system without a reinstall. Stijn Jonker.
Same thing happened to me, on a Dell Dimension V350, upgrading from RH5.2 to 6.1 with a slightly different hard disk configuration: VFS: Error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1: Invalid argument Traceback from text install: Traceback (innermost last) File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 225, in ? intf.run(todo, test=test) File "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/sitepackages/text.py", line 1000 in run rc = apply( step[1](), step[2] ) File "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/sitepackages/text.py", lin __call__ parts = todo.upgradeFindRoot() File "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/sitepackages/todo.py", line 1130, in upgradeFindRoot() isys.umount('/mnt/sysimage') File "../../../RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/sitepackages/isys.py", line 8 in umount return _isys.umount(what) SystemError: (22,'Invalid argument') Fdisk output: ------------------------ Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 262 1024 6128797+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 262 597 2698888+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 598 750 1228941 83 Linux native /dev/hda7 751 763 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 764 894 1052226 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda9 895 1024 1044193+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M --------------------------------------------------- fstab: ------- /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw,usrquota 1 2 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,nosuid,ro,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /WinUsers vfat exec,dev,suid,rw,uid=0,gid=10,umask=007 1 1 apex.ece.ucsb.edu:eci /eci nfs exec,nodev,nosuid,ro 1 1 apex.ece.ucsb.edu:/usr.apex /usr.apex nfs exec,nodev,nosuid,ro 1 1 /dev/fd0 /mnt/ext2-floppy ext2 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noa uto 1 1
This is a duplicate of bug #5555 and therefore I am closing this bug to prevent further clutter in the system. Please refer to bug #5555 for further details about the fix to this bug.