Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:28:14 am Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> > > Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > Upgrading with PATA Hard Disks
> > > > ========
> > > > If you are using PATA (parallel or "original" style ATA) hard disks and
> > > > you attempt to do a manual yum upgrade to this release, you may be 
> > > > unable
> > > > to boot your system when finished. To avoid this problem, use the
> > > > installer program (Anaconda) to upgrade your system instead of using 
> > > > yum.
> > > "*Manual* yum upgrade" implies that I would prefer some *manual* (not
> > > Anaconda) way to fix this issue...
> > >
> > > In other words, what I should do after the "yum upgrade" and before the
> > > reboot?
> > you would need to setup modprobe.conf before you do your yum update 
> > make sure it has the correct entry for the module for your pata 
> > controller.
>
> Heuh? Isn't this about libata making /dev/hdx /dev/sdy, and thus that 
> you need to make sure that you're filesystems are mounted by label, and 
> then after reboot and you know which sdy is your old hdx, fixup 
> /etc/fstab for swap

Nope, this is about the PATA drivers being built as modules now.

http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/72836.html

Paul.