Problem mod'ing partition table on install of Core 4.

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Dec 13 10:44:29 UTC 2005


Steven W. Orr wrote:
> When I go to install Core 4 on a new box with one 250G SATA drive I get 
> an error before I try to load all the RPMs. I succeed at specifying the 
> partition table but then the failure happens
> 
> "Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda3. 
> Device or resource busy."
> 
> I know it's a known bug. 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109987
> 
> But I was wondering if there's a workaround. I'm sort of stuck here.
> 
> Also, is there a way to access fdisk from the install?

Use Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a shell promot in the console window as 
soon as anaconda starts up, and you should be able to run fdisk from 
there. Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to anaconda when you're done.

Paul.




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