Re: upgrading FC6 -> FC8 - Error enabling swap device hda5: no such device or address



On 2008-01-24, Jeff <jeep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I had this same problem when I tried to upgrade to FC7 and gave up due
to time.
Now im trying to upgrade to FC8 and I ran into it again and remembered
it
was the same before.

I run through the upgrade screens and when it asks what partition to
upgrade
(which it says is /dev/sda3 - the only partition to upgrade with
fedora) I get
a popup window which says:

Error enabling swap device hda5: No such device or address

Sounds like the old kernel saw your hard drive as /dev/hda and the new
one sees it as /dev/sda. Just edit /etc/fstab.
.



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