Hans de Goede wrote:
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:28:14 am Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> Upgrading with PATA Hard Disks
>>> ========
>>> If you are using PATA (parallel or "original" style ATA) hard disks
and
>>> you attempt to do a manual yum upgrade to this release, you may be
>>> unable
>>> to boot your system when finished. To avoid this problem, use the
>>> installer program (Anaconda) to upgrade your system instead of using
>>> yum.
>> "*Manual* yum upgrade" implies that I would prefer some *manual* (not
>> Anaconda) way to fix this issue...
>>
>> In other words, what I should do after the "yum upgrade" and before
the
>> reboot?
> you would need to setup modprobe.conf before you do your yum update
> make sure it has the correct entry for the module for your pata
> controller.
>
Heuh? Isn't this about libata making /dev/hdx /dev/sdy, and thus that
you need to make sure that you're filesystems are mounted by label, and
then after reboot and you know which sdy is your old hdx, fixup
/etc/fstab for swap
Nope, this is about the PATA drivers being built as modules now.
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/72836.html
Paul.