I just tried to upgrade my machine to 6.1. The installer crashed, and I
am completely unable to upgrade my existing 6.0 system.
The symptom:
Graphical install: after selecting the "upgrade" option, I get a
message window stating: "error mounting ext2
filesystem on hda1: invalid argument". It then
hangs while displaying the message "searching
for existing Red Hat installations".
Text install: after selecting "upgrade", i get a message box
saying "error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1:
invalid argument". I hit OK, and am then greeted
with an "exception occurred" box with the message
'file "/usr/bin/anaconda" line 225 . . .' (I
could transcribe the entire error message if it
will help). hitting OK halts the machine, hitting
Debug drops me into the python debugger.
Fresh installation appears to work fine on the same machine (to my
try-out-new-distributions partition).
Granted I have no idea how the internals of the installer work, but it
looks to me like it is making some invalid assumptions about locations of
Red Hat installations. My two disks are partitioned thustly:
hda:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 497 3992121 7 HPFS/NTFS (Win NT4)
/dev/hda2 498 523 208845 6 FAT16
hdb:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux (/boot)
/dev/hdb2 3 35 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 36 243 1670760 83 Linux (scratch)
/dev/hdb4 244 1229 7920045 83 Linux (Red Hat 6.0)
the 'scratch' partition (hdb3) is used for trying out various Linux
distributions as they hit the streets.
Any ideas what's going on?
-matt
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