Please forgive me for NOT including fstab. I thought I had but I did not. Since
I am currently not at my machine and "out of the building" I cannot upload my
fstab, however, I can asure you that all devices referenced in fstab are labeled
as well as any partition on the disk.
I still see remnats of raid, i.e. /dev/md0 continues to be created upon reboot.
I was #fedora irc yesterday speaking with someone who seem quite knowledgable about these issue and he suggested to comment out the template reference to the md device
in /dev/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.??? /dev/md0 was recreated upon reboot again.
re: the confusing in the installer. I thought about that when I saw the FC6
had labeled /boot as /boot1 and /usr as /usr1 so I relabeled those
/boot1->/boot and /usr1->/boot and nada. Didn't fix it.
/etc/fstab
<snip>
LABEL=/ / 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
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=SWAP-hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/d1 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /mnt/d2 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /mnt/d3 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/d4 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd2 /mnt/d5 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd3 /mnt/d6 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/d7 ext3 defaults 0 0
</snip>
I just tried the f7-updates.img using:
linux updates=http:/people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img
and anaconda prompted for local ip and appeared to retrieve the image.
However, that apparently didn't fix the problem. After it searched for previous
releases I received the "Partition Type" screen with no screen to
select the type of install, i.e. install or upgrade.
I'm at my wits end. I'm attempting to move /etc /home /usr/local /var/www
but thinking that might have to reformat but I don't know if I have the space
to move the files.
Any other ideas? Ideas about removing that /dev/md0 device?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Lou
- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are
they LABEL references or device references?
On 6/6/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lou Spironello wrote:
> Thank's Jim for responding to my post.
>
> Please forgive me for not posting details sooner.
>
> In the interim I've done a number of things none of which were
> successful in getting F7 to prompt for and install or upgrade
> options.
I did not realize that there were so many disk management utilities. I
usually only use fdisk.
Thanks for the information about the programs and the results from using
each one.
Checklist:
- Is Fedora release installed and intact? - (yes)
- Do you have a regular kernel installed - (yes)
- disk partitioning errors, is raid remnants causing the lack of upgrade
choice? - (No, correcting the disk layout did not make any difference.}
- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are
they LABEL references or device references?
I checked bugzilla and it was pretty vacant of reports for this problem.
I did find this excerpt from bugzilla on an updated boot.iso file. I
don't know if this would help with your problem though.
EXCERPT from bugzilla report:
This bug is now addressed by an updates image. It is available for
download at:
http://people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img
Instructions for using updates disks are located at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates
If possible, please test this image out and report if it fixes your issue or
not. Once we are confident that your issue is solved by this image, we are
going to announce it more publicly. This fix may also be included in an
updated
anaconda package later for people who are making custom Fedora
distributions.
Thanks for your time.
END OF EXCERPT:
Jim
SYSTEM INFO SO FAR:
> default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu
> #title Fedora Core ( 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen) # root (hd0,0) #
> kernel /xen.gz- 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 # module
> /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16
> # module /initrd- 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen.img title Fedora Core
> (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16 initrd
> /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
>
> </snip> ========== # sfdisk -l
>
> <snip>
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 19929 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
> cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1
> * 0+ 24 25- 200781 83 Linux /dev/hda2 25
> 6086 6062 48693015 83 Linux /dev/hda3 6087 12166
> 6080 48837600 83 Linux /dev/hda4 12167 19928 7762
> 62348265 5 Extended /dev/hda5 12167+ 12410 244-
> 1959898+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 12411+ 19928
> 7518- 60388303+ 83 Linux
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 116301 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
> cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdc1
> 0+ 40634 40635- 20480008+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 40635 81269
> 40635 20480040 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 81270 116300 35031
> 17655624 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0
> 0 Empty
>
> Disk /dev/hdd: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
> cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdd1
> 0+ 194 195- 98248+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 195 116452
> 116258 58594032 83 Linux /dev/hdd3 116453 209265 92813
> 46777752 83 Linux /dev/hdd4 209266 238215 28950 14590800
> 83 Linux
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