Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6038
You don't have any Linux partitions. You can't upgrade this system! -reported on SCSI system with linux partitions
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:38:54 EST
My system is a PII400, with an Adaptec 2940U2W/IBM scsi disk/Seagate tapedrive, and a ide-cdrom attached as primary master. When trying to uopgrade, the system reports that I don't have any linux partitions (which I do). Have tried to disconnect the tape drive from the scsi-chain in order to make sure ther where no termination errors, with no luck. Neither graphics, text or expert-mode work. Also tried the option aic7xxx=no_probe and still no reported linux partitions. Below some system information and reported messages fstab /dev/sda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda6 /abab ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda9 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda2 swap ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom is9660 noauto, ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode620 0 0 tty3 * probing buses * finished bus probing * found suggestion of aic7xxx * found aic7xxx device * found devices justprobe is 0 * going to insmod aic7xxx.o (path is NULL) * trying to mount device hda * probing buses * finished bus probing * found suggestion of 3c59x * found 3c59x device * found suggestion of aic7xxx * found aic7xxx device * found suggestion of Card:ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC * found devices justProbe is 0 * going to insmod 3c59x.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid0.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid1.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod raid5.o (path is NULL) *** After second upgrade attempt * Error in swapon of sda2: Device or resource busy tty4 scsi0: Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4 <Adaptec AHA-294x Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host. (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronus at 80,0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D REV: DC1B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15 Vendor: Seagate Model: STT8000N REV: 3.22 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB] [8.7 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,0) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker (etc, left out) eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100BaseTx at 0xe800, 00:50:04:69:d3:20, IRQ 5 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceivier found at address 24, status 782d. Enabling bus-mastert transmits and whole-fram recevies. raid0 personality registered raid1 personality registered raid5 personality registered *** After first upgrade attempt Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (prioroty -1)
Don't know whether this is a mistype of what, but one problem is that the swap partition that you have listed below is of type ext2 and should be of type swap. Now, from the other messages that you attached, I cannot tell what the problem is. The system is seeing all of your partitions and therefore should be able to find the existing installation and should perform the upgrade on those partitions. Send me more error output and let me know where you are seeing the problem.
The ext2 for swap was a typo, it is 'swap' in my fstab. The error message 'You don't have any Linux partitions. You can't upgrade this system!' is seen right after I choose the upgrade option. Have tried to find any additional error messages for you, but this is all thats printed on the tty's. Is there any additional place to look? This is the only additional output (tty4) that I've seen hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } hda: ATAPI reset complete Also tried to set sda1 (/boot) as active, none of the partions where set as active. Didn't help. Also, the 'DOS-large disk option' in the adaptec bios is disabled (have tried both settings) Since the system is able to swapon my sda2 swap space, I guess the installer is seing my SCSI disk. It is also correctly reported in disk druid choosing custom install (without going any further). My theory: All the original partitioning was done using Partion Magic 4.01. Using fdisk, and the p option list the partition id as 83, and 82 for swap. But the extended partition is type f - win95, where the root partition is enclosed. You think it might help if changed to 85 Linux extended, or 5 Extended. How do i go about, and change it, and what security measures should I take? Some additional info on my system disk gemoetry (C/H/S) (1111/255/63) reported by disk druid Award Modular Bios 4.51PG 1st Mainboard, intel 440BX Adaptec AHA2940U2W v2.20.0 (upgraded from v2.01, tried upgrading before and after)
As you've guessed, the problem is that the extended partition type is set to '0f' (Windows Extended) instead of '05' (plain Extended). Anaconda (the installer in 6.1) specifically only looks for extended partitions inside a type '05' primary partition. One person here (with this problem) experienced no problems in simply changing the partition type from 0f to 05. In general, I suspect that Anaconda's disk partition parsing is fragile. Perhaps in future releases, RedHat should just copy the code from fdisk or the like (even if it is larger). Curious people can look in misc/src/anaconda/balkan/dos.c on the install image for the gory details.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5511 ***