Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77003
ks hd install fails when RedHat Directory on "/"
Last modified: 2007-03-26 23:58:09 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: installer gives error "Requested Partiiton Does Not Exist", partition exists Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. partition hda1 to 5G 2. copy cd's to /rhsource 3. start install, using kicstart below Additional info: The last message on tty3 is "* hda1 is a protected partition" Here's the kickstart file: install text lang English langsupport English keyboard us mouse generic3ps/2 --device psaux --emulthree rootpw password firewall --medium authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 bootloader network --bootproto dhcp part / --fstype ext2 --noformat --onpart hdc2 harddrive --partition hdc1 --dir /rhsource %packages @ Base I'm using the kernel and initrd-everything.img from /images/pxeboot/ I'm passing the arguement "ks=hd:hda1/kickstart" to the installer. It is finding the second stage.
I also tried copying the .iso files to the /rhsource directory. I did find those files, but errored with the same message
oh, and the iso mediacheck passes, and can install fine if located on a diffrent partition. (one not marked for use in the ks file with a "part" line)
Corrections: I tired this on hda as well as hdc; I put hda in steps to reproduce, I ment to be consistant with the kickstart file posted. Please assume I ment hdc. The kickstart pasted was the one that worked, to get the one that failed, replace the part line with this: part / --fstype ext2 --noformat --onpart hdc1
This currently fails when trying to mount the harddrive images to merge the RPM headers. To correct this problem will require some special case code that recognizes when the source for the harddrive install images is also a partition used for the installed system.
This affects installs and upgrades.
*** Bug 90599 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This should be happier in newer releases.