problems upgrading from FC6 to F7
Marc
linuxr at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 05:55:36 UTC 2007
Hi,
I am having trouble with an upgrade on my Dell Latitude D610 laptop.
I have files I need to get off of the machine but I cannot get it to
fully boot. When I boot up it makes it to the following point:
....mounting local filesystem......OK
....enabling filesystem quotas.....OK
....enabling /etc/fstab swaps.......Failed
Because of the need to rescue the files on there, I used the 'rescue'
disk, and did an 'upgrade only' type of install. Both times did not
fix my /etc/fstab. Twice I have done the full run of the cd which
would seem to fix major system files since they are not user data.
IOW I would think that Anaconda would straighten out the system files
in the new fedora 7 environment, rather than rely upon what may or may
not be screwed up with the existing setup --irrelevant as to whether
the existing system is hosed or not. (This to me, would seem to
indicate a design flaw with anaconda, but that is a bit of a separate
conversation.)
Another separate conversation would be how to understand what made
this thing happen. I have not been using fedora much lately, and I
have certainly not been in there goofing fstab settings around. Why
would my fstab just spontaneously corrupt anyway?
Repair-wise, I don't know how to fix it, or what I would do if I could
see it. If I could boot up further in the boot sequence, I would go
to another virtual terminal and try to vi the file, but I do not think
the kernel and/or ramdisk have fully done their dance together at this
point. Hung up is hung up.
Does anyone know a good way to fix this file? I will print off your
instructions and try whatever you suggest. This is a dual boot box
with windoze so I am unable to erase the machine as a whole at this
point.
Thanks in advance
Marc
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