Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)

[Hans de Goede]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:28:14 am Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> Upgrading with PATA Hard Disks
>>> ========
>>> If you are using PATA (parallel or "original" style ATA) hard disks and
>>> you attempt to do a manual yum upgrade to this release, you may be unable
>>> to boot your system when finished. To avoid this problem, use the
>>> installer program (Anaconda) to upgrade your system instead of using yum.
>> "*Manual* yum upgrade" implies that I would prefer some *manual* (not
>> Anaconda) way to fix this issue...
>>
>> In other words, what I should do after the "yum upgrade" and before the
>> reboot?
> you would need to setup modprobe.conf before you do your yum update make sure 
> it has the correct entry for the module for your pata controller.
> 

Heuh? Isn't this about libata making /dev/hdx /dev/sdy, and thus that 
you need to make sure that you're filesystems are mounted by label, and 
then after reboot and you know which sdy is your old hdx, fixup 
/etc/fstab for swap

Regards,

Hans