Re: installing linux after freebsd (multi-boot)

On Dec 31, 2007 1:29 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <wahjava.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
,--[ On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:03:08AM +0530, अनुज Anuj Singh wrote:

[snipped]

| > >> On 30/12/2007, ???? <anujhere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > >>
| > >>> Hello ,
| > >>> I have freebsd6.2 installed with Fedora core 7 and rhe4.
| > >>> I am installing rhel5 , when linux installation process starts I get an
| > >>> error of /dev/hdc1 busy , can not report to kernel about partition
| > >>> layout. In the past I installed linux then FreeBSD.
| > >>> Is there some method that rhel5 installation can skip /dev/hdc1
| > >>> (freebsd slice) ? saving my freebsd installation

You get /dev/hdc1 busy error. At which step in installation, you get
/dev/hdc1 busy error, hmm...? Are you trying to remove '/dev/hdc1'
(FreeBSD slice), if yes, then you'll get error, and you probably need to
remove FreeBSD partitions (present in slice) first.

No I am not removing/mounting/using FreeBSD slice.

This is the log...

03:29:50 INFO : moving (1) to step confirminstall
03:30:13 INFO : moving (1) to step install
03:30:13 INFO : moving (1) to step enablefilesystems
03:30:17 INFO : lv is VolGroup00/LogVol00, size of 1472
03:30:17 INFO : lv is VolGroup00/LogVol01, size of 2496
03:30:17 INFO : lv is VolGroup00/LogVol02, size of 672
03:30:17 INFO : lv is VolGroup00/LogVol03, size of 1024
03:30:17 INFO : lv is VolGroup00/LogVol04, size of 9984
03:30:17 INFO : lv is VolGroup00/LogVol05, size of 9344
03:30:17 INFO : removing lv LogVol03
03:30:18 INFO : removing lv LogVol00
03:30:18 INFO : removing lv LogVol04
03:30:19 INFO : removing lv LogVol05
03:30:19 INFO : removing lv LogVol02
03:30:20 INFO : removing lv LogVol01
03:30:21 INFO : pv is /dev/hdc11 in vg VolGroup00, size is 29996
03:30:21 INFO : vgremove VolGroup00
03:30:22 INFO : pvremove -ff -y /dev/hdc11
03:30:22 INFO : pvcreate -ff -y -v /dev/hdc11
03:30:23 CRITICAL: parted exception: Error: Error informing the kernel
about modifications to partition /dev/hdc1 -- Device or resource busy.
This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hdc1
until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way
before rebooting.
03:31:08 CRITICAL: Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 876, in savePartitions
disk.commit()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 145, in turnOnFilesystems
anaconda.id.diskset.savePartitions ()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 201, in moveStep
rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 124, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1007, in nextClicked
self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 243, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1034, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to
partition /dev/hdc1 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux
won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hdc1 until you reboot --
so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.


From anacdump.txt
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 876, in savePartitions
disk.commit()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 145, in turnOnFilesystems
anaconda.id.diskset.savePartitions ()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 201, in moveStep
rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 124, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1007, in nextClicked
self.anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 243, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1034, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to
partition /dev/hdc1 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux
won't know about any changes you made to /dev/hdc1 until you reboot --
so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.

Local variables in innermost frame:
self: <partedUtils.DiskSet instance at 0xb7bce72c>
disk: <PedDisk object at 0xb7e37638>

[snipped]

| Hi,
| 1. I am trying to fresh install over single disk.
| 2. I have FreeBSD6.2 slice on first primary partition of the disk.

There should be absolutely no problem in installing RHEL5, even
GNU/Linux can read FreeBSD disklabels (and partitions) without any
problem :) .

| can I have a look at your partition table ?

Here is mine, I'm running Ubuntu Linux, which is installed after FreeBSD.

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00083e09

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2611 20972826 a5 FreeBSD
/dev/sdb2 2612 9229 53159085 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 9230 9254 200812 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4 9255 19457 81955597+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 9255 15373 49150836 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 15374 19329 31776538+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 19330 19457 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

| I have IDE hard disk.

Mine is SATA disk, but that should make no difference :)

| Regards.
| Anuj singh "anugunj"

HTH
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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