Bug 71810 - Install Crashed when about to ask for CD change
Summary: Install Crashed when about to ask for CD change
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.3
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-19 16:30 UTC by Jamison Charlesworth
Modified: 2006-04-24 18:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-04-24 18:57:11 UTC
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2002-08-19 16:30 UTC, Jamison Charlesworth
no flags Details

Description Jamison Charlesworth 2002-08-19 16:30:29 UTC
Created attachment 915118 [details]
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Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-19 16:37:40 UTC
Have you tested your CDs?

 http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html

Comment 2 Jamison Charlesworth 2002-08-19 16:44:12 UTC
Yes, I also tried downloading the ISO image to the hard drive and installing 
from that rather than the CDRom, the same problem occurs.

I am installing to a hard drive on a HighPoint 37x2 controller, but this 
worked fine for RH7.2 previously both with straight install and with 
Highpoint's own RedHat install disks.

Its the /mnt/source that it seems not to be able to unmount which is strange 
as thats not linked to the controller, so I am discounting a problem with that.

Comment 3 Jamison Charlesworth 2002-08-19 16:50:45 UTC
Have just re-tested all CD's and all pass without problem

Comment 4 Jamison Charlesworth 2002-08-19 17:06:34 UTC
Sorry to reply 3 times without you replying!, but is there a way of forcing an 
unmount, then carrying on or making the debugger 'restart' the task of 
umounting and getting the next CD? Its just that I need this machine running 
as soon as possible for a client.

Basically I am after any way of getting it working!.

Many thanks, Jamie.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-20 17:15:15 UTC
It is not able to umount because of a read error from the device.

Jeremy any idea why a hard drive install would fail?

Comment 6 Jamison Charlesworth 2002-08-20 17:32:21 UTC
As an update:

I decided to not to add a second partition to the first hard drive (/disk1), 
as I noticed that the installer was copying the install image to that disk 
rather than /

It worked.

So it would seem that creating a partition that the installer uses on the same 
disk as the installation partition causes this error.


Comment 7 Jeremy Katz 2002-08-21 06:43:55 UTC
It's possible that there was a read error in copying to the drive.  Hopefully
the code in our betas should avoid any problems in this.

Comment 8 Jeremy Katz 2006-04-24 18:57:11 UTC
Mass-closing lots of old bugs which are in MODIFIED (and thus presumed to be
fixed).  If any of these are still a problem, please reopen or file a new bug
against the release which they're occurring in so they can be properly tracked.


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