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Re: v1.2 installer crash

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Subject: Re: v1.2 installer crash
From: Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx>
Date: 21 Oct 2002 15:02:49 -0700
In-reply-to: <1035221912.25622.58.camel@rose.americas.sgi.com>
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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:38, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> It is very strange that the installer is doing lvm stuff then.
> Did you have any lvm partitions at one point?

No. The machine was previously installed with RH 7.3 XFS-enabled (the
installer from oss.sgi.com). I just tried a format + reinstall
"upgrade".
It didn't had any LVM stuff, just plain partitions on regular SCSI
drives.

> The installer might be
> discovering something it shouldn't and trying to deal with it.
> You might want to wipe all partition information before starting the
> install.
> 
> It's also possible anaconda is incorrectly identifying xfs partitions as
> lvm partitions, but that's a bug in anaconda.
>  
> 
> On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:36, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > Just a plain SGI1200, with 4xSCSI. I'm not sure what vgchange means.
> > 
> > BTW, the plain RH8.0 installer worked without any problems.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 19:19, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > Did you have LVM on this machine?
> > > 
> > > Looks like it failed because "vgchange" failed...
> > > 
> > > -Eric
> > > 
> > > On 18 Oct 2002, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The RH8.0 installer (1.2pre) crashed. I didn't do any of the "forbidden"
> > > > things mentioned in the README (text install, upgrade, use grub) yet it
> > > > crashed.
> > > > I attached the crash dump.
> > > > 
> > > > The system is a SGI1200.
> > > > I cannot repeat the experiment, because the machine is not available
> > > > anymore.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Florin Andrei
> > > > 
> > > > Writing a book on wireless security
> > > > is like writing a book on safe skydiving.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > -- 
> > Florin Andrei
> > 
> > Writing a book on wireless security
> > is like writing a book on safe skydiving.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Florin Andrei

Writing a book on wireless security
is like writing a book on safe skydiving.


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