F7 install puts no entries in /dev,/proc/ and /sys

Phil Meyer pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Wed Jun 20 22:07:10 UTC 2007


andy selby wrote:
>> You may need to replace the LABEL= entries in /etc/fstab for both FC4
>> and F7, and in the grub.conf, to point to the actual device.
>>
>> What often happens in these types of set ups, is that the system may
>> boot the right kernel and then mount the wrong file system.
>> Not Good.
>>
>> anaconda is somewhat notorious for mangling labels with /, /1, /2, etc.
>>
>> General rule of thumb:
>> When dual (or more) booting like systems, force grub  and fstab to read
>> the specific device and not the LABEL.
>>
>> Good Luck!
> O.K I'll put the device instead of LABEL, this is what it looks like
> at the moment
> title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=0x31b
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> title Fedora 7 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
>        root (hd1,0)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/hdb1 vga=0x31b
>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
>

F7 uses libata now, same as SATA, for all drives, even PATA drives, 
which means that all drives are 'sd' now.

Try this:

title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x31b
       initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Fedora 7 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
       root (hd1,0)
       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/sdb1 vga=0x31b
       initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

Same for both fstabs.

Good luck!




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