On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 22:19 -0500, nethub@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello list: > > I just installed a new system per customer request with Fedora Core 2. > After install, we downloaded all of the updates using yum. The system > downloaded the newest kernel, which apparently changes the way it looks > at Serial ATA drives. We need to get this customer online, but are not > sure what needs to be changed. I know that in the 2.6.10 series of > kernel it addresses Serial ATA drives as /dev/sda instead of the > /dev/hde like it did in 2.6.5, but I'm not sure what else to change. > I've been able to boot into the old kernel, but the swap partition no > longer seems to work. > > /dev/sda1 (formerly hde1) is /boot > /dev/sda2 (formerly hde2) is / > /dev/sda3 (formerly hde3) is swap > > From booting in the old kernel: > > root@host [~]# ls /sys/block/hde > ./ ../ dev device@ hde1/ hde2/ hde3/ queue/ range size stat > > Here's grub.conf: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hde2 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hde > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC2) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC2.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img > > Here's /etc/fstab: > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > Please let me know what I need to do to get the system to boot > successfully with swap enabled in the new kernel. Thanks for any help > you can provide! ---- if you are absolutely certain that /dev/sda3 is the swap partition, you probably only need to reformat it for swap... man mkswap man swapon but just thought I would point out what I would have done, that would have been to use FC-3 instead of FC-2 at this point... - much better support for SATA drives - much longer time before EOL - worked a lot of bugs out of SELinux - more up to date versions of some daemons that I use Craig
