Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2

[shmuel siegel]

I am running a dual boot Win2k/Fedora system. Originally formatted by
Win2k for the NTFS and Fat32 partitions and formatted by RH7/8/9 for the
ext3 and linux swap partitions.
I got the already known complaints during the install. I couldn't do a
hard disk install because I didn't have a driver. The CDROM install
warned about partition alignment problems.
I didn't upgrade my FC1 system but rather installed FC2 to an existing
ext3 partition which I bravely reformatted as reiserfs. The installation
went smoothly and rapidly.
Rebooting, I found to my annoyance, that the boot loader was overridden
and now pointed to somewhere that didn't have my fc1 configuration, thus
forcing me to do some grub.conf editting. But more seriously, with
selinux turned on, I couldn't start. init did not have the proper
permissions. Rebooting with selinux turned off, didn't help since there
was no inittab. Copying the inittab from fc1 didn't help since there was
no rc.d/rc. 
How should I proceed?

[Aled Hughes]

I too had exactly the same problem with missing inittab and also various
rc.* scripts. Initially I had this with a rawhide version just prior to
test2, but after getting test2 and installing onto an empty existing
reiserfs partition, it still happened. I had SELinux in 'warn' mode.
When I reinstalled and told it to reformat the root partition as ext3 the
init problem was resolved. So I concluded the problem is related to using
reiserfs.

My system still doesn't boot correctly (sticks at "updating etc/fstab"),
but
that's an unrelated issue I need to further investiage.

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Sent: 31 March 2004 03:01
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Subject: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2


I am running a dual boot Win2k/Fedora system. Originally formatted by
Win2k for the NTFS and Fat32 partitions and formatted by RH7/8/9 for the
ext3 and linux swap partitions.
I got the already known complaints during the install. I couldn't do a
hard disk install because I didn't have a driver. The CDROM install
warned about partition alignment problems.
I didn't upgrade my FC1 system but rather installed FC2 to an existing
ext3 partition which I bravely reformatted as reiserfs. The installation
went smoothly and rapidly.
Rebooting, I found to my annoyance, that the boot loader was overridden
and now pointed to somewhere that didn't have my fc1 configuration, thus
forcing me to do some grub.conf editting. But more seriously, with
selinux turned on, I couldn't start. init did not have the proper
permissions. Rebooting with selinux turned off, didn't help since there
was no inittab. Copying the inittab from fc1 didn't help since there was
no rc.d/rc.
How should I proceed?


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[shmuel siegel]

I tried two things at the same time. Not enabling selinux and not using
reiserfs. Together this let me run the fc2. Very strange that the file
system should make a difference. I had also initially tried reiserfs
with warn mode for selinux.

I was going to report the problem but then noticed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119486
where Bill Nottingham says 
"reiserfs does not support extended attributes, so SELinux will not
work with it."

so I guess that it is the file system.

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:19, Aled Hughes wrote:
>  I too had exactly the same problem with missing inittab and also
> various
>  rc.* scripts. Initially I had this with a rawhide version just prior to
>  test2, but after getting test2 and installing onto an empty existing
>  reiserfs partition, it still happened. I had SELinux in 'warn' mode.
>  When I reinstalled and told it to reformat the root partition as ext3 the
>  init problem was resolved. So I concluded the problem is related to using
>  reiserfs.
>  
>  My system still doesn't boot correctly (sticks at "updating etc/fstab"),
> but
>  that's an unrelated issue I need to further investiage.
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-test-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>  [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of shmuel siegel
>  Sent: 31 March 2004 03:01
>  To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>  Subject: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2
>  
>  
>  I am running a dual boot Win2k/Fedora system. Originally formatted by
>  Win2k for the NTFS and Fat32 partitions and formatted by RH7/8/9 for the
>  ext3 and linux swap partitions.
>  I got the already known complaints during the install. I couldn't do a
>  hard disk install because I didn't have a driver. The CDROM install
>  warned about partition alignment problems.
>  I didn't upgrade my FC1 system but rather installed FC2 to an existing
>  ext3 partition which I bravely reformatted as reiserfs. The installation
>  went smoothly and rapidly.
>  Rebooting, I found to my annoyance, that the boot loader was overridden
>  and now pointed to somewhere that didn't have my fc1 configuration, thus
>  forcing me to do some grub.conf editting. But more seriously, with
>  selinux turned on, I couldn't start. init did not have the proper
>  permissions. Rebooting with selinux turned off, didn't help since there
>  was no inittab. Copying the inittab from fc1 didn't help since there was
>  no rc.d/rc.
>  How should I proceed?
>  
>  
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[James Morris]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, shmuel siegel wrote:

>  I tried two things at the same time. Not enabling selinux and not
> using
>  reiserfs. Together this let me run the fc2. Very strange that the file
>  system should make a difference. I had also initially tried reiserfs
>  with warn mode for selinux.
>  
>  I was going to report the problem but then noticed
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119486
>  where Bill Nottingham says 
>  "reiserfs does not support extended attributes, so SELinux will not
>  work with it."
>  
>  so I guess that it is the file system. 
You should be able to specify a default context for the entire filesystem 
in genfs_contexts, and/or use a context mount (i.e. mount -o context=some_context).


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