I typically do new Mageia installations bootstrapped via all.img with the repos on an external USB HDD. It happens to also be the disk I use for backups and it has a swap partition on it. Our installer not only enables its swap partition in fstab by default, which it should not, and causes the system to not boot later in the boot process if it is not present, now in Mageia 7 it also uses the UUID of this swap partition as the resume= value in /etc/default/grub, which makes the boot process fail at the very beginning with no helpful output indicating why. The installer should not enable or use swap partitions detected on removable media unless the system is actually being installed onto said removable media.
Thanks for the bug report. This is problematic. Installer found a swap partition on external drive, use it for itself and put it on /etc/fstab of the installed system. Tried myself and my external USB harddrive appear as a /dev/sdc it can't be undifferentiated from an internal harddrive. Assigning to Mageia Tools Maintainers. (Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)
Keywords: (none) => TriagedAssignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Yeah, adding the external swap to fstab is an old problem, I think our installer has always done that since the beginning of time (still should get fixed), but using it as the resume= is much more nefarious and I don't remember having that problem through mga5 (never installed mga6).
And what about adding a swap partition on an internal harddrive within the Installer while having an other on the external? I should test this, as soon as possible.
Yes that's exactly what I do.
Hi, This bug is against our Installer DrakX. @Developers/Packagers: Feel free to reassign to correct person. Also, if you are working on this, please change the status of this bug to "Assigned". Feel free to close this if already fixed. @All Thanks making DrakX even better.
Hi bug reporter and hi assignee and others involved, Please reopen this bug report if it is still valid for Mageia 8 or 9(cauldron), and change "Version:" in the upper left of this report accordingly. This report is being closed as OLD because it was filed against Mageia 7, for which support ended on June 30th 2021. Thanks, Marja
Resolution: (none) => OLDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENEDResolution: OLD => (none)
Version: 7 => Cauldron
CC: (none) => fri