/dev/sda1 apparently is in use

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:34 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:59 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> >>> When installing Suse 10.2 onto a new system, after creating the
> >>> partitions, the installation comes to the step to format the partitions,
> >>> I get the error that /dev/sda1 is apparently in use and the installation
> >>> stops.
> >>>
> >>> Moving another drive already installed Suse 10.2 to this system, it
> >>> boots just fine.
> >>>
> >>> Moving the first drive to another system, the installation goes without
> >>> any error.
> >>>
> >>> The motherboard of the new system is Intel Desktop D765XBX2; its BIOS
> >>> was flashed to the latest one 05/23/07.
> >>
> >> Are you able to delete all partitions off of /dev/sda ?  Are you sure that
> >> /dev/sda is your harddisk and not hte CDROM drive?
> >>
> > Yes. I could manually fdisk /dev/sda, delete the created partitions,
> > save new configuration, then add new partitions again, and save them
> > without any error.
> >
> > I use an external USB DVD drive and its device is /dev/sr0 or something
> > like that but definitely not /dev/sda
> 
> I very much doubt that.  Every USB disk I've ever used in the past 2 years 
> is treated like a normal SCSI drive.  I think you're confusing /dev/sda 
> which is the USB drive with /dev/sdb, which is your HDD.

I am going to check it again tonight. Will try an internal dvd drive
also.

Vu