On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:53 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > I wrote a couple of weeks ago, asking for help when the F7 > installation DVD wouldn't boot on my laptop. I didn't get a solution > to my problem so I installed F7 using the following solution: > > * Install minimal FC6 from installation media > * yum update to latest versions of everything > * Install F7 versions of fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms > * yum update to update all rpms to F7 I'm not sure I see the point of the second step. I'd have thought it would have been simpler to install 6, update straight to 7, if you had to. But I would have tried other methods to install FC7, without first installing another OS. Such as copy the FC7 ISO to a partition that you wouldn't format during install (say a /tmp one), download and burn the rescue ISO. Boot from it, start the install as a hard drive install, where it uses that saved DVD ISO file. > It took a while, but eventually I was finished and I had a FC6 system > where all rpms had been updated to their F7 versions. Then I rebooted > the laptop. > > That's when it went wrong. The boot sequence got as far as starting X > when it hung. Further investigation shows that I can boot into > runlevel 3, but it hangs when I run startx. There don't seem to be any > error logs written. > > During the boot sequence I see a couple of error messages that mention > not being able to access /dev/hda5. That bothers me as I thought that > all disk devices were /dev/sdaX in F7. Post your /etc/fstab file. Since you mentioned updating from FC6 to FC7, I'm guessing that some part of your fstab file needs a bit of tweaking. It could just the volume label for the swap partition, which is an arbitrary name that can be altered. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
