Problem installing fedora core 3 test3 on reiserfs /

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 27 20:09:56 UTC 2004



On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, praveen kandikuppa wrote:

> Hi, 
>   I was trying to install fedora core 3 test 3 but each time the
> install hung just before actually starting to install packages. The
> last message on the third terminal was " trying to mount none on
> /proc". The command prompt became unusable. even commands like "ls"
> did not return. the numlock key worked fine so i guess the system
> wasn't hung there are no other significant error messages. This only
> happens when using reiserfs root partition. Anyway i installed it by
> using ext3 root partition but was wondering if this is a known bug.

- fedora-test-list is the place for fc3test topics (archives?)
- reiserfs doesn't suport some filesystem attributes required by
  selinux. You could try booting with 'selinux=0'

Satish




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