Hi Steve,
Thank you for all the information.  It is always better to have too much than 
not enough.  Nothing jumps out at me for being wrong, so I'll ask some more 
questions.

When you partition the disk during the install, how are you partitioning it?
Are you doing it manually?  Are you using the automatic partitioning?
Are you removing all the partitions and making new ones?  Are you using the 
existing partitions?
Which partitions are you formating, which are you leaving along?

Troy

Steve White wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The SL 5.1 anaconda just crashed on me three times, fortunately before it
> formatted the partitions.
> 
> After I had finished setting up the partitions and networking and packages,
> after it had verified the consistency of the packages, I came to a window
> that prompted me if I wanted to start the installation.  I clicked "Next"
> and got an error dialog:
> 
> ================================================================
>         Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition/dev/sda5--Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda5 until you reboot--so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
> ================================================================
> 
> It prompted me to "ignore" or "cancel".  I tried it each way, with the same
> result:  an exception window, and no choice but to re-boot.
> 
> ================================================================
> Exception Occurred
> ...
> /tmp/treedir/12334/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py line 892, in savePartition disk.commit()
> " " /packages.py, line 147, in turnOnFilesystems anaconda.id.diskset.savePartitions()
> ================================================================
> 
> The machine is a 2411 MHz x86_64 dual-core  (family 15 model37) with 8GB RAM.
> 
> It has a Fiber Channel connection (I tried the install both
> connected and unconnected).
> 
> It also has an IPMI card.
> 
> The system hard disk is nothing special (maybe a little over-partitioned)
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3              2063536    465460   1493252  24% /
> /dev/sda1               101105     30332     65552  32% /boot
> none                   4081032         0   4081032   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda6             10325780    497152   9304108   6% /opt
> /dev/sda7              8262068    131260   7711112   2% /tmp
> /dev/sda5             10325780   7714352   2086908  79% /usr
> /dev/sda8              5162828    680644   4219924  14% /var
> /dev/sda9             87033536   6825444  79323876   8% /work1
> /dev/sda10            87025504    739156  85402212   1% /work2
> /dev/sda11            87033536     89840  86059480   1% /work3
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ /sbin/fdisk
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      104422   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2              14        1319    10490445   82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda3            1320        1580     2096482+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4            1581       38913   299877322+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            1581        2886    10490444+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            2887        4192    10490444+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda7            4193        5237     8393962   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8            5238        5890     5245222   83  Linux
> /dev/sda9            5891       16898    88421728+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda10          16899       27905    88413696   83  Linux
> /dev/sda11          27906       38913    88421728+  83  Linux
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> $ ipmitool -I open mc info
> Device ID                 : 32
> Device Revision           : 0
> Firmware Revision         : 0.20
> IPMI Version              : 2.0
> Manufacturer ID           : 6653
> Manufacturer Name         : Tyan Computer Corporation
> Product ID                : 2892 (0x0b4c)
> Device Available          : yes
> Provides Device SDRs      : no
> Additional Device Support :
>     Sensor Device
>     SDR Repository Device
>     SEL Device
>     FRU Inventory Device
>     IPMB Event Receiver
>     IPMB Event Generator
>     Bridge
> Aux Firmware Rev Info     :
>     0x00
>     0x00
>     0x00
>     0x00
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> $ /sbin/lspci
> 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
> 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
> 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
> 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
> 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
> 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
> 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
> 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
> 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
> 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
> 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
> 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
> 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
> 01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
> 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)
> 18:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 13)
> 18:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
> 18:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 13)
> 18:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
> 19:03.0 Fibre Channel: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic FC949X Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 01)
> 1a:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
> 1a:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
> 
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