Upgrade Error Can't Find /home

Mitch Wiedemann mc2 at lightlink.com
Wed May 19 15:59:04 UTC 2004


Avery wrote:

>Trying to update a poweredge 2650 from FC1 to FC2. I have tried installing using both hard drive and cdrom methods. I
>get an error when trying to upgrade.
>
>error message:
>------------------------------------
>Error mounting device sda15 as /home: no such file or directory. This most likely means the partition has not been
>formated.
>------------------------------------
>
>This happens in the step where anaconda asks me if I would like to upgrade or do a new install. When I click on
>upgrade and hit next I get this error, and then I am forced to reboot. If I click on new insall then I do not get any
>errors. I did a md5sum on all iso's.
>
>  
>
I had a similar error with my swap partition.  It turns out that I had 
an extra, non-existent swap partition defined in my FC1 /etc/fstab.  
Once I removed the errant swap partition entry from /etc/fstab, the FC2 
upgrade went very smoothly.

HTH.

-- 
Mitch Wiedemann
mc^2 Computer Consulting
mc2 at lightlink.com
http://www.lightlink.com/mc2





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