Re: problems upgrading from FC6 to F7
- From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:53:07 -0500
Marc wrote:
Hi,Marc,
I am having trouble with an upgrade on my Dell Latitude D610 laptop.
I have files I need to get off of the machine but I cannot get it to
fully boot. When I boot up it makes it to the following point:
....mounting local filesystem......OK
....enabling filesystem quotas.....OK
....enabling /etc/fstab swaps.......Failed
Because of the need to rescue the files on there, I used the 'rescue'
disk, and did an 'upgrade only' type of install. Both times did not
fix my /etc/fstab. Twice I have done the full run of the cd which
would seem to fix major system files since they are not user data.
IOW I would think that Anaconda would straighten out the system files
in the new fedora 7 environment, rather than rely upon what may or may
not be screwed up with the existing setup --irrelevant as to whether
the existing system is hosed or not. (This to me, would seem to
indicate a design flaw with anaconda, but that is a bit of a separate
conversation.)
Another separate conversation would be how to understand what made
this thing happen. I have not been using fedora much lately, and I
have certainly not been in there goofing fstab settings around. Why
would my fstab just spontaneously corrupt anyway?
Repair-wise, I don't know how to fix it, or what I would do if I could
see it. If I could boot up further in the boot sequence, I would go
to another virtual terminal and try to vi the file, but I do not think
the kernel and/or ramdisk have fully done their dance together at this
point. Hung up is hung up.
Does anyone know a good way to fix this file? I will print off your
instructions and try whatever you suggest. This is a dual boot box
with windoze so I am unable to erase the machine as a whole at this
point.
Thanks in advance
Marc
You may want to read the release notes for F7. If you are using
PATA (IDE) hard drives, the new drivers map them as SCSI drives.
Because of this, /dev/hda is now /dev/sda. This is not a problem if
you are using partition labels, or LVM, but it sounds like you are
using drive labels for your swap device. If you edit fstab and
change /dev/hd[letter][number] to /dev/sd[letter][number], it should
do the trick. For example, if swap is /dev/hda7 change it to /dev/sda7.
If you have more then one drive, it may be more complicated, in that
the drive letter may also change. In that case, post your fstab and
we can help. (We may need more information...)
You can test your change by running "swapon -a". If it works without
error, you have it right.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
- References:
- problems upgrading from FC6 to F7
- From: Marc
- problems upgrading from FC6 to F7
- Prev by Date: evolution is better on F7.
- Next by Date: Re: evolution is better on F7.
- Previous by thread: Re: problems upgrading from FC6 to F7
- Next by thread: reverting yum back to fc6
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
