FC4 -> FC8 upgrade problem with fstab label

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 10 15:08:05 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 21:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 22:34 -0600, Joe Hahn wrote:
> > I'd like to upgrade my rather dated Fedora Core 4 system to FC8. 
> > However my upgrade attempt is halted by the message:
> > 
> > error mounting hda5 as /disc54
> > no such device or address
> > devices in /etc/fstab should be specified by label, not by device name
> > 
> > Any suggestions as to how my fstab should be revised? Below is my fstab:
> > 
> > LABEL=/              /                          ext3    defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/boot        /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /dev/pts               devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > none                    /dev/shm             tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda5            /disc54                 ext3    defaults        1 2
> > #LABEL=/disc54     /disc54              ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                   /proc                    proc    defaults        0 0
> > none                   /sys                     sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda3            swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> ----
> one of who things bit you...
> 
> partitions must be labeled, looks like your partitions are labeled but I
> am including here for completeness...(started Fedora 7)
/dev/hda5 is not labelled and that is causing the error he sees. hdx vs
sdx is irrelevant if he uses labels.
tune2fs will do the labeling.
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Installer.html#Upgrade-Related-Issues
> 
> drives are no longer using /dev/hdX designations, but using /dev/sdX
> designations (probably have to edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf
> by booting in 'linux rescue mode' and fixing these files)
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn-Changes-in-Anaconda
> 
> The latter appears to be your issue
> 
> Craig
> 
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