mkalenkov wrote:
Hi,
I tried upgrade my FC4 box to FC5 from DVD, but I got the message
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Error mounting device /mnt/disk1/home as /home: No such file or directory
This most likely means this partition has not been formatted.
Press OK to reboot your system.
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The only action at this point is to push the "OK" button for the
reboot.
My fstab file is following
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# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for
details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /mnt/disk1 ext3 defaults 1 2
/mnt/disk1/usr /usr none bind 0 0
/mnt/disk1/home /home none bind 0 0
/mnt/disk1/var /var none bind 0 0
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/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
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I skip several unimportant lines from fstab (mounting CD-ROM,
DVD, floppy, and win partitions). It is not clear from fstab that
/dev/hdb2=/
/dev/hdb1=/boot
hda1, hda5, hda6, hda7 are win partitions.
This fstab is correct. I found (from ALT-F2 console) that anaconda installer
mounted / and /boot correctly to /mnt/sysimage, then skiped line
/dev/hda8 /mnt/disk1 ext3 defaults 1 2
(why??), and then failed mount /home.
Is it possibbe to say anaconda installer what partitions should be mounted?
Any ideas how to upgrade such system?
It's at times like this that you wished you'd used LVM instead of having
to shuffle partitions around using bind mounts etc.
I suspect anaconda is failing because when it's running, /mnt/disk1/usr
is actually /mnt/sysimage/mnt/disk1/usr and hence /mnt/disk1/usr etc/
cannot be found.
You might work around this problem by getting rid of the bind mounts and
using (relative) symlinks instead.
Paul.
