Description of problem: hardware: UEFI laptop, GPT disk. Previous successful M3A4 install on /dev/sda4 after gdisk partitioning. Attempted to overwrite this now with M4B1 round 3 x86_64 install, classic DVD. Install failed immediately after custom disk partitioning, when I selected /dev/sda4 again, the next stage formatting this gave no increment in the formatting progress bar. 'mount' failed, couldn't recognise ext3 partition type. I went to the F2 # prompt, ran 'mke2fs -j /dev/sda4' which completed normally. Tried to mount it from the hash prompt; 'mount -t ext3 /dev/sda4 /mnt -o acl,noatime' but this failed.'mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext3' The only other error I can see, (possibly unrelated) behind Ctrl-Alt-F4, is some systemd stuff: systemd-udevd[427]: failed to execute '/sbin/initqueue' '/sbin/initqueue --onetime --unique --name console_init_tty0- /lib/udev/console_init /dev/tty0': no such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Whiteboard: (none) => M4B1 x86_64 round 3
Confirming this with DVD 64 (3rd build Nov 5th). The installer (DVD 64) doesn't offer to upgrade mga3 64 which still have ext3 partitions on a dual booting system, only a previous install from the same DVD which has ext4. Looking in the log on tty3 it finds the partitions and tries to mount them as ext3 read only on /tmp/inspect_tmp_dir. It does modprobe ext3 then modprobe -n ext3 before mounting each ext3 partition. It doesn't show any error message there. When it tests the ext4 partitions it doesn't modprobe and says ext4 already loaded. Seems likely the modprobe is failing and the mounts for ext3 fail. Looking n the dmesg log on tty4 it shows EXT4-fs (sda7) mounted and then EXT4-fs (sda8) mounted but there is nothing showing for the previous ext3 mounts (sda1,sda5 i think).
Whiteboard: M4B1 x86_64 round 3 => 4beta1
Summary: critical install fail - can't mount partition => critical install fail - can't mount ext3 partitions
Also in the partitioning stage, selecting to use existing partitions usually defaults to the first two on the drive but currently is defaulting to the ext4 partitions at the end of the drive. I'll attach report.bug.xz when done.
Not sure if this is also true of live isos, i'll try one on this machine next install.
CC: (none) => ennael1, mageia, thierry.vignaud, tmb
Sounds similar to #11600 in that the module is no longer automatically loaded and it's not pulled in magically. If you do a "modprobe ext3" first does it work OK? See the instructions on the other bug for how to do that.
I think I see the problem: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11600#c12
FWIW 'modprobe ext3' doesn't then enable mounting of the ext3 target partition
(In reply to Tony Blackwell from comment #6) > FWIW 'modprobe ext3' doesn't then enable mounting of the ext3 target > partition When did you run that? If you run it during stage2 it's too late - it has to be done in combination with rd.break=pre-pivot command line option as detailed on the other bug and mentioned above.
OK, so this problem should be fixed in the new drakx-installer-binaries I've just committed. Thomas can you push and rebuild -images after?
It's a dup then (stage2 not being able to load modules with new stage1) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11600 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE