Bug 89921 - Installer fails to mount /boot partition after formatting.
Summary: Installer fails to mount /boot partition after formatting.
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version: 9
Hardware: All Linux
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Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Reported: 2003-04-29 20:30 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-06-18 20:45:59 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-04-29 20:30:58 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; PGE)

Description of problem:
Toggling to <ctrl><f3> and it indicates that it failed to mount
/tmp/sda1 to some boot image location.

Toggling to <ctrl><f2> and it indicates that e2fsck needs to run.

Upon further inspection there is some problem with the root inode.  Also it 
says that sda1 is not a directory.

(ls -al /tmp/sda1  indicates:

brw.....   /tmp/sda1



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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run RH9 installer
2.Use default installer settings (eg. autopartition, net, etc.)
3.Tell autopartition disk druid to blow away ALL existing partitions.


    

Actual Results:  While watching the installer format the partitions, I verified 
that it does indicate that /boot has been indeed formatted.  But the errro 
comes up and forces a reboot of the system.  The error also mentions ("This 
usually indicates that the partition has not been formatted).

Additional info:
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-04-30 18:54:46 UTC 
Please give more information about the hardware in your system. We've not
encountered this failure in our testing.
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2003-06-18 20:45:59 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add.
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