Hello
I am trying to create my own redhat 9 CD with my own kernel. Currently I
have manged to be able to boot from the CD, it partitions the hardisk
automatically, creates a raid1, formates and then starts to install
the base image to harddisk. Just when the bar is at 100% I get the
following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 739, in ?
intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 459, in run
dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 157, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 225, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 599, in doPreInstall
if method.systemMounted (id.fsset, instPath, id.hdList.selected()):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 121, in systemMounted
isys.lochangefd("/tmp/loop", self.loopbackFile)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 109, in lochangefd
_isys.lochangefd(loop, targ)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
Local variables in innermost frame:
device: /tmp/loop
targ: 18
file: /mnt/sysimage//rhinstall-stage2.img
loop: 17
I have checked both /tmp/loop and /mnt/sysimage//rhinstall-stage2.img
do exist:
ls -al /mnt/sysimage//rhinstall-stage2.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 0 48799744 Sep 4 15:34
/mnt/sysimage/rhinstall-stage2.img
ls -al /tmp/loop
brw------- 1 root 0 7, 0 Sep 4 15:34 /tmp/loop
(The ls part was copied by hand)
I have tried to do a losetup /tmp/loop /mnt/sysimage//rhinstall-stage2.img
by hand but this also failes. It complains that the syntax is wrong.
I am beginning to think that in redhat kernel there is some patch that
I left out in my own kernel. But which one is missing? Looking through
the list of redhat patches I see linux-2.4.18-loopfixes.patch but this
does not apply correctly to the 2.4.22-ac1 kernel that I am using.
What I find strange is that there is another loopback device (called loop0)
with the same major and minor number, but this is also the same case with
the original redhat CD:
brw------- 1 root 0 7, 0 Sep 4 15:34 /tmp/loop0
It would be very helpful if I could get this to work. But I am clueless
what I am doing wrong and any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Please tell me if I need to provide more information.
Thanks,
Holger
