CentOS 5.3 has been running fairly good except for a slow ethernet connection so I thought I would upgrade to CentOS 5.4 to see if that improved things. I had previously changed fstab and menu.lst to use UUID instead of LABEL in order to insulate myself from partition label changes I wanted to make. This worked fine in CentOS 5.3.
When I attempted to upgrade from 5.3 to 5.4 using the installation disk and telling it to upgrade rather than do a new install, the installation correctly found my root partition as /dev/sdb8. When I proceeded with the upgrade I received the error:
"Error mounting device UUID=cee298a0-9c47-4a3a-ac84-23db4d20edd5 as /. No such file or directory. This most likely means the partition has not been formatted."
But of course it has been formatted and is my / partition running CentOS 5.3.
Does anyone know how to fix this to get CentOS 5.3 upgraded ? Do I have to use LABEL in fstab and menu.lst for my partitions, or perhaps just for my root partition ? Any other ideas why this is failing ?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Edward Diener eldiener@tropicsoft.com wrote:
CentOS 5.3 has been running fairly good except for a slow ethernet connection so I thought I would upgrade to CentOS 5.4 to see if that improved things. I had previously changed fstab and menu.lst to use UUID instead of LABEL in order to insulate myself from partition label changes I wanted to make. This worked fine in CentOS 5.3.
No answers, but can you tell me why you're re-installing? Doing a regular yum update will bring a 5.3 system to a 5.4 system.
Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Edward Diener eldiener@tropicsoft.com wrote:
CentOS 5.3 has been running fairly good except for a slow ethernet connection so I thought I would upgrade to CentOS 5.4 to see if that improved things. I had previously changed fstab and menu.lst to use UUID instead of LABEL in order to insulate myself from partition label changes I wanted to make. This worked fine in CentOS 5.3.
No answers, but can you tell me why you're re-installing? Doing a regular yum update will bring a 5.3 system to a 5.4 system.
That worked, thanks ! I am using Smart and once I changed the Smart channels to point to 5.4 instead of 5.3, Smart got the latest updates, installed them, and now I am a 5.4 user. I guess if I was using Software Update it would have automatically picked up the changes, but I find Smart a much easier and more informative program to use.
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 15:52 -0500, Edward Diener wrote:
Smart a much easier and more informative program to use.
In view of the hassle you just went through (unnecessarily) can you still say that?
Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 15:52 -0500, Edward Diener wrote:
Smart a much easier and more informative program to use.
In view of the hassle you just went through (unnecessarily) can you still say that?
I can say it because I have had problems with Software Update intermittently in the past. It is also much less informative than Smart in showing one what is happening when individual packages are being updated. Fianlly it is pathetic how bare and user-unfriendly the GUI interface is. But each to their own.
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