Installation failure - suggestions needed...

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 13:39, Neil B. Cohen wrote:
> I have a machine at home which has been running FC3 and FC4T3 without
> any problems. Last night I attempted to install the official FC4. I
> media checked the CD's, partitioned my disks, selected packages and
> started the install. Before formatting the disks, I got a popup window
> that said "Error informing the kernel about mods to partition /dev/hdb2
> - resource is busy. This means Linux will not see any changes
> to /dev/hdb2 until your reboot...." Then the system forces a reboot.
> I think this was my swap partition, but clicking the 'Ignore' button on
> the popup generated a similar message for other partitions I was trying
> to create (some, but not all of them...)
>
> I tried this twice. Figured it might be hardware, so I used a Windows
> CD (ugh! :)) to completely reformat both hard drives. Formatting
> worked, but the Linux install failed again. Tried letting Anaconda do
> an automatic disk partitioning instead of manual - same result.
>

> Thanks in advance,
>
Hi,

Had the same problem with a Dell Precision 330. Again the error referred 
to my old swap partition which I had changed for the installation.

I just rebooted and everything went OK !!

Tony


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Tony Molloy.

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick