FC7 yum upgrade
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Jul 26 17:19:10 UTC 2007
Catalin Bucur wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have made an upgrade with yum from FC6 to FC7 on a i686 system with
> IDE drives. Everything worked ok, but I realized after upgrade that in
> /etc/fstab I had /dev/hdX entries instead of LABELs. After reboot I got
> the message:
>
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root/'
> Setting up other filesystems
> Setting up new root fs
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> Switching to new root and running init.
> unmounting old /dev
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> At that point I have tried to make all the modifications necessary to
> boot again with this kernel. Now, the situation looks like:
>
> -> fdisk
> /dev/sda1 1 126 1012063+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda2 127 2228 16884314+ 83 Linux
>
> -> blkid
> /dev/sda2: LABEL="Cata" UUID="ebfbf39f-558d-4d30-b143-9e581bf41f77"
> SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
> /dev/sda1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap"
>
> -> /etc/fstab
> LABEL=Cata / ext3 defaults 1 1
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> -> /boot/grub/grub.conf
> default=0
> timeout=7
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=Cata
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
>
Dumb question - is the label on /dev/sd2 really Cata?
e2label /dev/sda2
Mikkel
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