http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494240 Summary: Update failed: Cannot mount /var partition Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: AmigaPhil@ping.be QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Created an attachment (id=285325) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=285325) boot.msg from my current 11.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032600 SUSE/3.0.8-1.1 Firefox/3.0.8 I'm trying to update my openSUSE 11.0 to 11.1 (final), but I got an error saying the /var partition cannot be mounted (and a URL to http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2003/03/fhassel_update_not_possi... ). After I select the update installation mode, the root partition is properly suggested (/dev/sda2). If I click on 'Show all partitions', I can see the other ones, but with an 'unknown Linux' type and unknown architecture. When I click on 'Next' (/dev/sda2 selected), I got the above error. I tried the tip from the support page (above URL), but it didn't help. I've posted many details cat /etc/fstab ls -l /dev/disk/by-id fdisk -l and others, on the openSUSE forum: http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/412332-update-fails-partitions... ==================== Tejun Heo replied (from https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433105#c39 ): Hmmm... the disk being a genuine SCSI device, I doubt the problem you're seeing is the same as this one. Can you please open a new bug report and attach the following information? 1. /var/log/boot.msg and /etc/fstab from 11.0 (please attach them instead of inlining or linking. 2. After booting 11.1 installation media, switch to vt2 (ctrl-alt-f2). Plug in a usb stick and mount it under /mnt (you can see which /dev/sdX node it got assigned by running dmesg). Run the following commands. * save_y2logs /mnt/y2logs.tar.gz; cp /var/log/boot.msg /mnt; dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.out; umount /mnt and attach the resulting files in the bug report. ====================
Hmmm... the disk being a genuine SCSI device
Two of my hard disks are SCSI ones (holding the Linux partitions of my current 11.0 installation). The third one is a IDE (ATA), and holds 2 FAT partions (Windows) and a ext3 partion which is my 11.1 Install Disk (DVD uncompressed to it). Here are the attachments: Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.