On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:53 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 08:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >>> Rikke D. Giles wrote: > >>>> On 11/24/2006 08:42:49 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >>>>> That said, my install runs through the point that it tries to boot. It > >>>>> reaches the point that it says: > >>>>> > >>>>> Mounting local filesyste [Failed] > >>>>> Enabling local filesystem quotas [OK] > >>>>> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps > >>>>> > >>>>> At this point, the boot hangs and goes no further. I've noted that > >>>>> other > >>>>> people have reported the same problem. > >>>> Hey Michael, > >>>> > >>>> Did you turn off SE linux? Hmm, or maybe it's enabled by default until > >>>> you hit the first boot sequence. Anyway, that could be a problem, it > >>>> might not be recognizing your drives because its not familiar with the > >>>> labels given (via Kubuntu or whatever). > >>> No, I didn't. Actually, I don't remember a prompt that asked me about SE > >>> Linux. > >>> > >> The problem is that it is called SELINUX (the cr was unfortunate) and > >> you are asked whether you want to use it during the install. If you are > >> having install and boot problems I would disable it. At first, at least. > > I just read a review of FC6 available today on Linux Today. The review > says that SELinux is enabled by default and can't be turned off until > after the installation is complete. This would coincide with my memory > of not being prompted about SELinux during installation. If the article > interests you, it's at > > http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3645261 ---- yeah, firstboot allows you to turn it off but that doesn't take effect until you restart again. I would doubt that your problem has anything to do with SELinux or NTP (that was simply a wild guess by Anne). The failure you list above would appear to be struggling with trying to activate the swap memory and I have no idea what chose in manual configuration but normally, a swap partition is automatically created in the partition druid portion of the installer (anaconda) and by default, the druid would create a boot partition and a single LVM partition which would be sub partitioned into a swap and a single partition for everything else like this... # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 24792 199037317+ 8e Linux LVM and then checking fstab... # cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 Anyway, whatever is listed as swap memory in /etc/fstab doesn't appear to actually be available when you tried to boot. If you want, you could boot with the following parameters passed at boot... linux rescue then once booted, you can change your chroot... chroot /mnt/sysimage and then finally get what is listed in /etc/fstab so you can check if such a partition exists for swap. You can 'display' LVM volumes (but I gather you didn't use LVM) with the command... lvdisplay Craig
