Getting Fedora to work - SELinux
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Nov 25 19:52:09 UTC 2006
Of course you can put swap space on LVM, in fact, this is from the
defaults chosen by anaconda. You can also put swap in a file instead of
it's own partition.
Craig
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:46 -0800, sport wrote:
> Are you sure you can put swap space on LVM? I have never done it, and
> think it may be a bad idea anyway. You want the fastest partition or
> partitions to be swap, and usually I put it on a primary partition.
> Also, you can shut off selinux by passing the kernel parameter selinux=0
> I don't know off hand how to pass kernel parameters to an installation
> kernel, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. In fact I had to do it once
> to shut off the apic with noapic, I just don't remember how I did it.
> The kernel parameters how to will tell you though. That's not the exact
> name, but it's something like that.
>
> good luck
>
> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 10:37 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:53 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > >> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 08:43 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > >>> Rikke D. Giles wrote:
> > > >>>> On 11/24/2006 08:42:49 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > >>>>> That said, my install runs through the point that it tries to boot. It
> > > >>>>> reaches the point that it says:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Mounting local filesyste [Failed]
> > > >>>>> Enabling local filesystem quotas [OK]
> > > >>>>> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> At this point, the boot hangs and goes no further. I've noted that
> > > >>>>> other
> > > >>>>> people have reported the same problem.
> > > >>>> Hey Michael,
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Did you turn off SE linux? Hmm, or maybe it's enabled by default until
> > > >>>> you hit the first boot sequence. Anyway, that could be a problem, it
> > > >>>> might not be recognizing your drives because its not familiar with the
> > > >>>> labels given (via Kubuntu or whatever).
> > > >>> No, I didn't. Actually, I don't remember a prompt that asked me about SE
> > > >>> Linux.
> > > >>>
> > > >> The problem is that it is called SELINUX (the cr was unfortunate) and
> > > >> you are asked whether you want to use it during the install. If you are
> > > >> having install and boot problems I would disable it. At first, at least.
> > >
> > > I just read a review of FC6 available today on Linux Today. The review
> > > says that SELinux is enabled by default and can't be turned off until
> > > after the installation is complete. This would coincide with my memory
> > > of not being prompted about SELinux during installation. If the article
> > > interests you, it's at
> > >
> > > http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3645261
> > ----
> > yeah, firstboot allows you to turn it off but that doesn't take effect
> > until you restart again.
> >
> > I would doubt that your problem has anything to do with SELinux or NTP
> > (that was simply a wild guess by Anne).
> >
> > The failure you list above would appear to be struggling with trying to
> > activate the swap memory and I have no idea what chose in manual
> > configuration but normally, a swap partition is automatically created in
> > the partition druid portion of the installer (anaconda) and by default,
> > the druid would create a boot partition and a single LVM partition which
> > would be sub partitioned into a swap and a single partition for
> > everything else like this...
> >
> > # fdisk -l /dev/hda
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda2 14 24792 199037317+ 8e Linux LVM
> >
> > and then checking fstab...
> > # cat /etc/fstab
> > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults
> > 1 1
> > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
> > 1 2
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
> > 0 0
> > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> > 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults
> > 0 0
> > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults
> > 0 0
> > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults
> > 0 0
> >
> > Anyway, whatever is listed as swap memory in /etc/fstab doesn't appear
> > to actually be available when you tried to boot.
> >
> > If you want, you could boot with the following parameters passed at
> > boot...
> >
> > linux rescue
> >
> > then once booted, you can change your chroot...
> >
> > chroot /mnt/sysimage
> >
> > and then finally get what is listed in /etc/fstab so you can check if
> > such a partition exists for swap.
> >
> > You can 'display' LVM volumes (but I gather you didn't use LVM) with the
> > command...
> >
> > lvdisplay
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
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