F7: unable to upgrade from FC6 (weird hdaX errors)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 3 19:28:19 UTC 2007


Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 11:40 PM +0530 6/3/07, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> André Costa wrote:
>>
>>> It didn't go too far: I was immediately presented with another error:
>>>
>>> "Error enabling swap partition device hda5: no such file or directory.
>>> The /etc/fstab on your upgrade partition does not reference a valid
>>> swap partition. Press ok to reboot your system".
>>>
>>> (notice again the 'hda5' instead of 'sda5'... could it be due to the
>>> fact that I don't have LABELs for hda5 and hda6?)
>> Yes. Due the libata changes from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* everything
>> requires labels to upgrade smoothly. Fedora installer provide labels by
>> default but if you did any customization you might have to set it
>> manually. More information on how to do this is available in the release
>> notes at
>>
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Installer.html#id3152635
> 
> Rahul -- is this also true for LVM2 partitions?  ISTM that it would only
> affect /dev/hd* partitions and their fstab entries.  I haven't tried to
> install yet (or rather not that far yet) or I'd know, but I could use the
> answer.

I believe it does not affect LVM's.

Rahul




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