RH 7.3 Install Problems

**Logic** · 01-28-2004

Hi All,

I am wondering if anybody can help me.

I am trying to install RedHat 7.3 onto a machine but I keep getting the following error.

Code:

The kernel was unable to re-read the partition table on /tmp/hda &#40;Device or resource busy&#41;. This means Linux knows nothing about any modifications you made. You should reboot your computer before doing anything with /tmp/hda

I have de partitioned the dish with FDisk and Disk Druid but I am still having no luck. I have also tried to use LILO and Grub as boot loaders.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance

**nikhil** · 01-28-2004

why dont you try formatting the hard disk completely and installing from scratch?

**Logic** · 01-29-2004

Hi,

I still cant get this to work, i have formatted the disk with FDisk which was on a DOS boot disk.

I have deleted all partitions with it, then started RedHat Text installer, used FDisk to create partitions and format them, but I still get the same error.

If I say ignore the error, it will start the install process but only install 506 packages, even if I ask for a full install.

Am I not using FDisk correctly? Or is there another problem?

Any Ideas?

**Logic** · 01-30-2004

I have tried re-installing RH9 and had no problems, which makes me think that it is a driver problem.

I even tried installing RH7.3 after but got the same problem.

I partitioned the disk in the following way.

hda
-hda1 200MB /boot Ext2
-hda2 2000MB Swap
-hda3 77800MB / Ext2

I am running the following hardware.

Motherboard - Gigabyte 7DPXDW + Dual AMD SoA with RAID 10/100 LAN

2 x CPU's - AMD Athlon MP 2600+ "Thoroughbred" core

Memory - 1GB PC2100 (PC266) DDR ECC Registered

HDD. 80GB Maxtor ATA-133 (7200rpm, 8MB Cache)

Any thoughts?

**whiteskin** · 01-30-2004

stay with RH9 if it worked....

**Dolda2000** · 01-30-2004

I think it seems really strange with the EBUSY error. Where exactly in the installation do you get this error?

If you don't mind me asking, though - why do you want RH7.3 instead of RH9 or FC1?

**Logic** · 02-02-2004

I get the error message just before it starts to copy the install files to the HDD.

I need to run 7.3 as we have some software that does not work properly on RH9

**Dolda2000** · 02-02-2004

When that error shows up on the screen, press Ctrl+Alt+F2 (before clicking it away), and run the following command:

Code:

fuser -v /&#123;dev,tmp&#125;/hda*

Then, can you post the output of it here?

**Logic** · 02-03-2004

The fuser command was not found

**Dolda2000** · 02-03-2004

Oh, typical... I really thought the fuser would be in the installation image. Anyway, try these instead:

Code:

ls -l /proc/* | grep hda
ls -l /proc/*/fd | grep hda
grep hda /proc/mounts

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