Upgrade To FC 7: Unable to mount /tmp

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:10 PM -0700 7/26/07, Ben Mohilef wrote:
>We are trying to upgrade an old hunk'o'junk dual athlon box from FC5 to
>FC7 using a DVD. Unfortunately the installer claims that it can not mount
>/dev/hda15 as /tmp and aborts. /tmp mounts nomally on FC5 ( not nosuec
>or noexec) and I can't find any unusual attributes. It fscks cleanly as do all
>the other partitions.
>
>There are a spectacular dearth of diagnostics here. The FC5 works
>flawlessly.   Has anyone else seen this problem? Am I overlooking the
>obvious somewhere? A clean install is just not practical on this box.

Is the issue libata?  Per F7 Release Notes, all /dev/hdxx are now
/dev/sdxx.  Does the /tmp line in fstab use a label or the device
/dev/hda15 (which probably becomes /dev/sda15)?  There's also a limit in
libata of 15 partitions; the old way allowed 63.
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