ananconda upgrade won't mount partition
David Morgan
dmorgan1 at dslextreme.com
Thu May 12 03:13:57 UTC 2005
I want it to upgrade a copy of RedHat8 but Anaconda can't mount the
partition it's in, even though other software does.
The target hard disk:
/dev/hda1 - RedHat8 (whole filesystem)
/dev/hda2 - swap
Whenever RedHat8 boots hda1 gets mounted ; you can also mount it under
knoppix. Anaconda detects RedHat8's presence and asks if I want to
upgrade rather than do a fresh install. Saying yes gets error message:
"Error mounting device hda1 as /: invalid argument",
the conjecture the partition probably isn't partitioned, and an OK
button to reboot (no choice). At that point, if I use the anaconda
feature to get an install log (ctrl-alt-F4) I see it tried to mount
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/sysimage. Then if I use the anaconda feature to get a
root prompt (ctrl-alt-F2) and execute "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/sysimage,"
it mounts fine. But it's too late to proceed. The OK button will only
reboot.
This happens with multiple installation disksets (RedHat9, Fedora2, and
Fedora3). And with 2 different hard disks, the second a functionally
identical (rsync'd) copy of the first. It happens with whichever
diskset, on either hard disk.
How do people perform upgrade-type installations? Any ideas what's wrong
in these cases of mine?
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