Are you sure you can put swap space on LVM? I have never done it, and think it may be a bad idea anyway. You want the fastest partition or partitions to be swap, and usually I put it on a primary partition. Also, you can shut off selinux by passing the kernel parameter selinux=0 I don't know off hand how to pass kernel parameters to an installation kernel, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. In fact I had to do it once to shut off the apic with noapic, I just don't remember how I did it. The kernel parameters how to will tell you though. That's not the exact name, but it's something like that. good luck On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 10:37 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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 >
