Hello CentOS,
I've just taken 2 old servers running CentOS 3.x, wiped it out, and installed CentOS 4.1
The systems seemed to work fine with CentOS 4.1, but when I proceeded to run yum -y update, all the RPM's (101) download and seem to install fine - however, upon reboot, partitions such as /usr/ and /var will not mount (ext3). These machines both use the Intel S875WP1 P4 Mainboards. Both use SATA Drives. One uses the promise controller (which on install seems to find a suitable driver).
Anyway, I've also tried installing directly from the CentOS 4.2 Server CD, same issue. Install goes fine, but bootup won't mount /var
Any idea what this is all about?
Just to confirm, I've reinstalled 4.1 from scratch, and the machines both seem to run just fine, but the problem is, I use YUM to update my machines, so now I am also worried about other machines that might be affected by this strange update issue.
Wbat happens if you install with 4.2? What errors do you see when you try to mount these partn?
-Ben
On Monday 28 November 2005 14:52, Mickael Maddison wrote:
Just to confirm, I've reinstalled 4.1 from scratch, and the machines both seem to run just fine, but the problem is, I use YUM to update my machines, so now I am also worried about other machines that might be affected by this strange update issue.
-- Best regards, Mickael mailto:centos@silverservers.com
Monday, November 28, 2005, 2:26:38 PM, you wrote:
Hello CentOS,
I've just taken 2 old servers running CentOS 3.x, wiped it out, and installed CentOS 4.1
The systems seemed to work fine with CentOS 4.1, but when I proceeded to run yum -y update, all the RPM's (101) download and seem to install fine - however, upon reboot, partitions such as /usr/ and /var will not mount (ext3). These machines both use the Intel S875WP1 P4 Mainboards. Both use SATA Drives. One uses the promise controller (which on install seems to find a suitable driver).
Anyway, I've also tried installing directly from the CentOS 4.2 Server CD, same issue. Install goes fine, but bootup won't mount /var
Any idea what this is all about?
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I ran into a similar problem with the upgrade to 4.2 from 4.1, and help on this list pointed me to the following link:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1050
In my case, I had more than 1 hard drive, and the second hard drive wasn't usable. I had to remove, I believe, the dmraid package. You didn't mention whether you have 1 or more hard drives.
On Nov 28, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Mickael Maddison wrote:
Hello CentOS,
I've just taken 2 old servers running CentOS 3.x, wiped it out, and installed CentOS 4.1
The systems seemed to work fine with CentOS 4.1, but when I proceeded to run yum -y update, all the RPM's (101) download and seem to install fine - however, upon reboot, partitions such as /usr/ and /var will not mount (ext3). These machines both use the Intel S875WP1 P4 Mainboards. Both use SATA Drives. One uses the promise controller (which on install seems to find a suitable driver).
Anyway, I've also tried installing directly from the CentOS 4.2 Server CD, same issue. Install goes fine, but bootup won't mount /var
Any idea what this is all about?
-- Best regards, Mickael mailto:centos@silverservers.com
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hello Kevin,
That seems to have done the trick. So yes, I had 2 drives in one machine, 3 in the other. It was strange though, some of the partitions that wouldn't load were on sda, some sdb and some sdc.
Anyway, thanks. I hope they fix dmraid.
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Benjamin Smith -
Kevin Krieser -
Mickael Maddison