F11 beta install Fail, Fedora cannot stand opensolaris

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sat Apr 4 01:14:31 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 07:21:01PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
 > Ahmed Kamal wrote:
 > > Trying to install F11 beta on my laptop fails with "File System error
 > > detected, cannot continue"
 > > It seems to barf on /dev/sda2 which is an opensolaris ZFS partition
 > > /dev/sda2   *        7753       10302    20482875   bf  Solaris
 > > 
 > > It might be related that I have opensolaris' grub installed (as it's the
 > > only one that can read/boot zfs). Anyway, relevant logs below
 > 
 > What does blkid think of the device; does blkid /dev/sda2 think it's
 > some other fs?
 > 
 > Also anything interesting from the kernel?  (dmesg, or look on the VT
 > that has the kernel log)
 > 
 > I'm not sure how anaconda decides what to try to mount to get sizes...
 > if it's totally unrecognized it should probably skip it.t

This looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490795
where btrfs comedically tries to mount zfs partitions.

Lulz follow shortly afterwards.

	Dave




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