On Tuesday 14 June 2005 13:39, Neil B. Cohen wrote: > I have a machine at home which has been running FC3 and FC4T3 without > any problems. Last night I attempted to install the official FC4. I > media checked the CD's, partitioned my disks, selected packages and > started the install. Before formatting the disks, I got a popup window > that said "Error informing the kernel about mods to partition /dev/hdb2 > - resource is busy. This means Linux will not see any changes > to /dev/hdb2 until your reboot...." Then the system forces a reboot. > I think this was my swap partition, but clicking the 'Ignore' button on > the popup generated a similar message for other partitions I was trying > to create (some, but not all of them...) > > I tried this twice. Figured it might be hardware, so I used a Windows > CD (ugh! :)) to completely reformat both hard drives. Formatting > worked, but the Linux install failed again. Tried letting Anaconda do > an automatic disk partitioning instead of manual - same result. > > Thanks in advance, > Hi, Had the same problem with a Dell Precision 330. Again the error referred to my old swap partition which I had changed for the installation. I just rebooted and everything went OK !! Tony -- Tony Molloy. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick