Dear Jim:<br><br>Please forgive me for NOT including fstab. I thought I had but I did not. Since<br>I am currently not at my machine and "out of the building" I cannot upload my<br>fstab, however, I can asure you that all devices referenced in fstab are labeled
<br>as well as any partition on the disk.<br><br>I still see remnats of raid, i.e. /dev/md0 continues to be created upon reboot.<br>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
<br>in /dev/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.??? /dev/md0 was recreated upon reboot again.<br><br>re: the confusing in the installer. I thought about that when I saw the FC6<br>had labeled /boot as /boot1 and /usr as /usr1 so I relabeled those
<br>/boot1->/boot and /usr1->/boot and nada. Didn't fix it.<br><br>/etc/fstab<br><br><snip><br><br>LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1<br>LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
<br>devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0<br>tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0<br>LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
<br>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0<br>sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0<br>LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
<br>LABEL=SWAP-hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0<br><br>/dev/hdc1 /mnt/d1 ext3 defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hdc2 /mnt/d2 ext3 defaults 0 0
<br>/dev/hdc3 /mnt/d3 ext3 defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hdd1 /mnt/d4 ext3 defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hdd2 /mnt/d5 ext3 defaults 0 0
<br>/dev/hdd3 /mnt/d6 ext3 defaults 0 0<br>/dev/hdd4 /mnt/d7 ext3 defaults 0 0<br><br></snip><br><br><br>I just tried the f7-updates.img
using:<br>linux updates=http:/people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img<br><br>and anaconda prompted for local ip and appeared to retrieve the image.<br><br>However, that apparently didn't fix the problem. After it searched for previous
<br>releases I received the "Partition Type" screen with no screen to<br>select the type of install, i.e. install or upgrade.<br><br>I'm at my wits end. I'm attempting to move /etc /home /usr/local /var/www
<br>but thinking that might have to reformat but I don't know if I have the space<br>to move the files.<br><br>Any other ideas? Ideas about removing that /dev/md0 device?<br><br>Any help would be appreciated.<br><br>
Thanks again.<br>Regards,<br>Lou<br><br><br>- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are<br>they LABEL references or device references?<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Cornette</b> <<a href="mailto:fc-cornette@insight.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fc-cornette@insight.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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Lou Spironello wrote:<br>> Thank's Jim for responding to my post.<br>><br>> Please forgive me for not posting details sooner.<br>><br>> In the interim I've done a number of things none of which were
<br>> successful in getting F7 to prompt for and install or upgrade<br>> options.<br><br>I did not realize that there were so many disk management utilities. I<br>usually only use fdisk.<br><br>Thanks for the information about the programs and the results from using
<br>each one.<br><br>Checklist:<br>- Is Fedora release installed and intact? - (yes)<br>- Do you have a regular kernel installed - (yes)<br>- disk partitioning errors, is raid remnants causing the lack of upgrade<br>choice? - (No, correcting the disk layout did not make any difference.}
<br><br>- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are<br>they LABEL references or device references?<br><br>I checked bugzilla and it was pretty vacant of reports for this problem.<br>I did find this excerpt from bugzilla on an updated
boot.iso file. I<br>don't know if this would help with your problem though.<br><br>EXCERPT from bugzilla report:<br>This bug is now addressed by an updates image. It is available for<br>download at:<br><br><a href="http://people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img</a><br><br>Instructions for using updates disks are located at:<br><br><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates
</a><br><br>If possible, please test this image out and report if it fixes your issue or<br>not. Once we are confident that your issue is solved by this image, we are<br>going to announce it more publicly. This fix may also be included in an
<br>updated<br>anaconda package later for people who are making custom Fedora<br>distributions.<br>Thanks for your time.<br>END OF EXCERPT:<br><br>Jim<br><br><br>SYSTEM INFO SO FAR:<br>> default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu
<br>> #title Fedora Core ( 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen) # root (hd0,0) #<br>> kernel /xen.gz- 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 # module<br>> /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16<br>> # module /initrd-
2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen.img title Fedora Core<br>> (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro<br>> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16 initrd<br>> /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img<br>><br>
> </snip> ========== # sfdisk -l<br>><br>> <snip><br>><br>> Disk /dev/hda: 19929 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =<br>> cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
<br>><br>> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1<br>> * 0+ 24 25- 200781 83 Linux /dev/hda2 25<br>> 6086 6062 48693015 83 Linux /dev/hda3 6087 12166
<br>> 6080 48837600 83 Linux /dev/hda4 12167 19928 7762<br>> 62348265 5 Extended /dev/hda5 12167+ 12410 244-<br>> 1959898+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 12411+ 19928<br>> 7518- 60388303+ 83 Linux
<br>><br>> Disk /dev/hdc: 116301 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =<br>> cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0<br>><br>> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdc1
<br>> 0+ 40634 40635- 20480008+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 40635 81269<br>> 40635 20480040 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 81270 116300 35031<br>> 17655624 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0
<br>> 0 Empty<br>><br>> Disk /dev/hdd: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =<br>> cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0<br>><br>> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdd1
<br>> 0+ 194 195- 98248+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 195 116452<br>> 116258 58594032 83 Linux /dev/hdd3 116453 209265 92813<br>> 46777752 83 Linux /dev/hdd4 209266 238215 28950 14590800
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