At 7:10 PM -0700 7/26/07, Ben Mohilef wrote: >We are trying to upgrade an old hunk'o'junk dual athlon box from FC5 to >FC7 using a DVD. Unfortunately the installer claims that it can not mount >/dev/hda15 as /tmp and aborts. /tmp mounts nomally on FC5 ( not nosuec >or noexec) and I can't find any unusual attributes. It fscks cleanly as do all >the other partitions. > >There are a spectacular dearth of diagnostics here. The FC5 works >flawlessly. Has anyone else seen this problem? Am I overlooking the >obvious somewhere? A clean install is just not practical on this box. Is the issue libata? Per F7 Release Notes, all /dev/hdxx are now /dev/sdxx. Does the /tmp line in fstab use a label or the device /dev/hda15 (which probably becomes /dev/sda15)? There's also a limit in libata of 15 partitions; the old way allowed 63. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
