Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 61934
Installer can leave partitions in /etc/fstab unmountable
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:11 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: By default, anaconda uses labels instead of device names. During the install, formatting partitions have device labels added to them. However, if you choose to not format a partition, and the partition dosen't have a label defined, it fails to mount on bootup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Format a partition without defining a label 2.Install redhat, choosing a mountpoint for the partition, and choose to not format it. 3.Attempt to boot the machine Actual Results: The machine attempts to mount the partition with the matching label, which dosen't exist. The machine then prompts for the root password to repair the disk. Expected Results: The installer should detect that the label dosen't exist and either: 1) add the device name into /etc/fstab instead of the label 2) Add the label to the partition (not preferred since choosing to not modify a partition should not modify the partition) Additional info:
This is actually exactly the algorithm which is used. What did your partitioning look like before and after the install (including what was labelled where)? If you tune2fs -l the partition which you didn't format, does it really not have a label? Was the partition that caused problems an ext2 partition?
On first bootup, the partition had no label. I used tune2fs -l to add the label, and it mounted fine on the next bootup. The problematic partition was ext3, not ext2.
Hrmm... I can't reproduce this here, but will keep trying.
I'm not sure if it would matter or not, but the partition was not a standard named partition (not /usr /home /boot, etc.) The partition name was /scratch. I doubt it would matter, but just in case :)
What sort of device was the partition in question on?
18 gig SCSI hard drive. Fujitsu model MAJ3182MP
I still can't reproduce this :( If you can reproduce this and see any useful messages on tty3 or tty5 during the install, feel free to reopen the bug