[Cooker] [Bug 8692] [Installation] RESOLVED: Installing On Existing Partitions - Permission Denied Errors on Booot

[[martin.fiala]]

User ID: 9530, 8 bugs reported (3 fixed, 1 duplicate, 0 invalid), 493 comments.

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8692


martin.fiala@mandrake.cz changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |OLD




------- Additional Comments From martin.fiala@mandrake.cz  2005-04-30 10:41 -------
This is an old bug, closing as RESOLVED/OLD. If you are not
satisfied with OLD resolution, test your problem with latest
packages from Cooker and if your problem occurs with these packages,
please reopen this bug, thank you.

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------- Reminder: -------
assigned_to: install@mandriva.com
status: RESOLVED
distribution: cooker
creation_date: 
description: 
I have an existing test partition mounted in mdk9.2 on /mnt/test(/dev/hdf8).
Since I don't like to have this partition mounted at boot, I have the "noauto"
option on the fstab entry for this partition. I did the mdk10 install using the
"Existing Partitions" option. That brought up a screen listing all my linux
partitions with their mount points as listed in mdk9.2's fstab. I changed the
mount point for hdf8 from /mnt/test to "/" and changed the mdk9.2 "/" to
/mnt/mdk9.2. The install went fine but when I rebooted I got numerous errors
starting with:

/etc/rc.d/rs.sysinit line 1 (Permission Denied)
/bin/gettext (Permission Denied)

followed by a whole slew of other commands with "Permission Denied".

Booted back to mdk9.2 and checked the permissions on the relevant commands and
files, all of which seemed to be in order. Then I took a look at the mdk10 fstab
and sure enough the root partition for mdk10 had the "noauto" option in its
line. Deleted the "noauto" from that line and I was able to boot into mdk10 w/o
any errors.

Moral of the story. When installing on existing partitions which are included in
a prior mdk9.2 fstab, the permissions and options in mdk9.2's fstab will be read
and preserved in the mdk10 install. Depending on how you have your partitions
setup in mdk9.2 this can lead to problems when installing mdk10.