New attempted install of 64 bit fc5 results in empty /boot, /dev, /home. /misc, /mnt, /opt, /proc, /selinux, /srv, /sys and /net is totally missing (no such directory). Needless to say the system does not boot properly. Machine is asus 64 bit motherboard with two ide drives and one sata. sda contains 64 bit CentOS 4.4 which is rock solid. hdb contains fc5 32 bit which likewise has no known significant issues. fc5 64 bit install is on hda. hda is partitioned as follows. [root@office keepertoad]# parted GNU Parted 1.8.0 Using /dev/hda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: WDC WD1200JB-00GVA0 (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 120GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot 2 107MB 31.6GB 31.5GB primary ext3 3 31.6GB 33.7GB 2097MB primary linux-swap 4 33.7GB 120GB 86.4GB extended 5 33.7GB 120GB 86.4GB logical ext3 hda1=/boot hda2=/ hda5=/home mounting hda2 on /mnt/fc5-64 reveals the following. [root@office keepertoad]# ls -l /mnt/fc5-64/dev total 0 Same is true for other directories listed above. md5sum and media check o.k. Downloaded and burned iso twice with same result. I did not install grub on hda but manually entered data for this install in grub.conf on sda. Attempted boot of fc5 64 bit on hda starts out fine with proper kernel, *2054*, and shows proper version of nash 5.0.32 but somehow switches to the CentOS 64 bit install on sda and boots it. Here is my 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/sda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=3 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title CentOS-4 x86_64 (2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp.img title CentOS-4 x86_64 (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img title Fedora Core x86_64 (2.6.15-1.2054) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp.img title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2111_FC5smp) root (hd2,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5smp ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5smp.img Replacing root=LABEL=/1 with root=/dev/hda in the third title entry results in kernel panic which may be consistent with all the empty directories. I did RTFM and google LABEL but still not sure exactly how it works. Would appreciate any thoughts about why empty directories are installed and how to resolve that issue. Thanks in advance. B.J. McClure Fedora Core 5, Linux 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp athlon 09:07:54 up 30 min, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.11
