Fedora Core 2 problems

nethub at gmail.com nethub at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 03:19:45 UTC 2005


Hello list:

I just installed a new system per customer request with Fedora Core 2.  
After install, we downloaded all of the updates using yum.  The system 
downloaded the newest kernel, which apparently changes the way it looks 
at Serial ATA drives.  We need to get this customer online, but are not 
sure what needs to be changed.  I know that in the 2.6.10 series of 
kernel it addresses Serial ATA drives as /dev/sda instead of the 
/dev/hde like it did in 2.6.5, but I'm not sure what else to change.  
I've been able to boot into the old kernel, but the swap partition no 
longer seems to work.

/dev/sda1 (formerly hde1) is /boot
/dev/sda2 (formerly hde2) is /
/dev/sda3 (formerly hde3) is swap

 From booting in the old kernel:

root at host [~]# ls /sys/block/hde
./  ../  dev  device@  hde1/  hde2/  hde3/  queue/  range  size  stat

Here's grub.conf:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hde2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hde
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC2)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img

Here's /etc/fstab:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

Please let me know what I need to do to get the system to boot 
successfully with swap enabled in the new kernel.  Thanks for any help 
you can provide!




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