F11 beta install Fail, Fedora cannot stand opensolaris

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 4 01:59:12 UTC 2009


Why does the failure to mount a partition, kill the setup ?! IMO, the
partition should just be ignored

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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