Bug #136
Installer fails to format disk in some cases, dependent on old formatting
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | 12/31/1969 | |
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | 6.02.00 |
Description
Installer will fail to format the drive, dependent on its previous formatting. I can get it to fail consistantly if I first install Fedora core 10, and then run the installer.
It looks like cfdisk doesn't have the force flag set. This is what the mythvantage_install log looks like:
US/Pacific
2074324
800x600
Usage:
swapoff -a [-v] disable all swaps
swapoff [-v] <special> disable given swap
swapoff -h display help
swapoff -V display version
The <special> parameter:
{-L label | LABEL=label} LABEL of device to be used
{-U uuid | UUID=uuid} UUID of device to be used
<device> name of device to be used
<file> name of file to be used
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
This disk is currently in use - repartitioning is probably a bad idea.
Umount all file systems, and swapoff all swap partitions on this disk.
Use the --no-reread flag to suppress this check.
Use the --force flag to overrule all checks.
/dev/sda2: Device or resource busy
mknod: `sda': File exists
mknod: `sda1': File exists
mknod: `sda2': File exists
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mke2fs 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
I am installing onto a 40g SATA drive, E8400 Intel processor, ICH10R Northbridge (none of this should matter, from what I can tell)
The installer gets to the 14% complete, then reports done.
I had no problem working around the issue by going into cfdisk (just before the installer was going to reboot), and deleting all the partitions, and then writing the partition table. Restart the install, and it works fine.
History
Updated by jams almost 16 years ago
The volume groups installed by fedora are keeping the disks active. Will implement something to remove the VG's if they are part of the install disk.