Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Malcolm-Rannirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> However, I encountered a problem with the install. My previous install had a > >> reiserfs root partition and I decided to switch it to ext3 as I was wiping it > >> to do the upgrade anyway. However the partion tool apparently set the mount > >> options for reiserfs rather than ext3 (fstab read: /dev/hda5 / notail ... > >> which is a reiserfs option). This resulted in the boot sequence being unable > >> to remount root as writable, at which point many things failed to work. > > > > I just tried to reproduce you problem.. and failed. How on earth > > do you manage to do an upgrade and change the FS type of the /? > > He wasn't doing an upgrade, actually, but a re-install over previous > partitions. I had the same problem, sorta:
I first tried doing an install and failed. Then I browsed my archives, found the mail, tried to do it as an upgrade, and failed as well. > Computer running mdk8.0-pre<something> (can't remember what it was) > with a bunch of cooker (from the 8.0-8.1 time), all partitions are (installing a "bunch" of Cooker is not supported by us) > reiserfs. > > Booted 9.0 install CD. Expert/Install. Got to partitions. Selected > mountpoints. Got to the format-partitions step and noticed that I > had forgotten to convert / from reiserfs to ext3, so I went back to > the begining of the step, selected ext3 for partition type, said yes > when asked if I was sure, went to next step, formatted / and > continued installation without problems. Reboot. Ok. Hum, if this is -that- complicated to experience the bug, I'm not going to try to reproduce and publish a workaround on "errata", for sure :-). > And...no dice :) / was mounted read-only due to bad options in > fstab. Booted with 9.0 CD, went into rescue, opened fstab of new > installation and...it had notail as one of the options for / > partition. Changed that to defaults, rebooted and everything > worked. So fixing the problem was not so hard. I think you could also do it by booting in runlevel 1 (remounting rw by hand). > So...it seems like the installer is not dealing correctly with > changing an existing reiserfs partition to an ext3 partition. Yep and it's already fixed in the CVS by pixel, AFAIK. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
