Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 81066
Unable to mount SCSI drive as /home during upgrade
Last modified: 2008-01-17 12:49:42 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: I have my root partition on an IDE disk, and my /home on a SCSI disk connected to a SCSI card using the aci7xxx driver. I also have a USB CompactFlash reader. Before anaconda is launched, in the text mode pre-install part, it says it is loading the usb-storage module (presumably for my card reader) and then the aic7xxx module. I continue with the installation, selected the upgrade option, and after clicking 'next' on the screen where I can choose the upgrade option, the installer comes up with a message saying it is unable to mount /dev/sda2 (my /home) as /home because no media was present. This was very strange because I know my /home is formatted and working fine, so I tried switching to a virtual terminal and mounting it manually, where it still failed with the same message about no media. I believe this is because usb-storage acts like a SCSI device, and because it is loaded first, it takes /dev/sda, which should really be my SCSI disk, and the SCSI disk is at /dev/sdb. Indeed, I was able to mount /dev/sdb2 fine. I was able to redo the installation by disconnecting my USB CompactFlash reader, but the installer should not be getting confused about this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get an older RH system (i.e. 8.0) with one of the partitions on a SCSI disk (not sure it this problem is with all SCSI or only aic7xxx) and a USB-storage device attached. 2. Try to upgrade the system to Phoebe Actual Results: Installer unable to mount the partitions on the SCSI disk Expected Results: Seamless mounting of the partitions Additional info:
Known regression we will fix.
Fixed in CVS
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