Bug 79889 – Unable to mount filesystems during install using livecd 2005.0

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Björn Briel 2005-01-28 13:46:37 UTC]

i try to install from minimal live cd 2005.0 and I encountered two problems:
1. trying to add swap leads to error "Device or resource busy"
2. trying to mount the install partition gives error "/dev/hda4 already mounted or device busy"



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot: gentoo doscsi from 2005.0
2. make fdisk write the followin table:
   Device Boot       Start      End      Blocks   Id   System
/dev/hda1   *            1      892     7164958+   b   W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2              893    13640   102398310    7   HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3            13641    13703      506047+  82   Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4            13704    14596     7173022+  83   Linux

3. mkswap /dev/hda3; mke2fs /dev/hda4
4. swapon /dev/hda3; mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo

Actual Results:  
I get the followin error msgs:

swapon: /dev/hda3: Device or resource busy
mount: /dev/hda4 already mounted or /mnt/gentoo busy

Expected Results:  
swapon an mount should both have worked

I'm on an Athlon XP, disk is a Samsung SV1203N (120GB) SCSI CDROM

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-01-28 14:07:00 UTC]

For one, anything in /experimental is for testing purposes...  Gentoo 2005.0 is not released.

Second, there's a bug for this... bug #77881