RE: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2

[Richard Duncan <duncric iit edu>]

Any luck on fixing the freeze at "updating etc/fstab"?  I'm getting the 
same problem.  I first installed FC2T2 (with the boot from FC2T1 trick) 
with SELinux enabled, but got way too many error messages on boot (like 
some have been getting...audit messages and the such).  After setting 
selinux=0, enforcing=0, and audit=0 in boot and still no better, I 
reinstalled with SELinux disabled.  Now I don't get any errors, but I 
also don't get past updating fstab.  I've checked fstab through Windows 
(using Explore2FS), and it looks alright.  I don't see any error 
messages on boot, so I'm clueless here.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Specs:
Abit IS7-E
80 GB WD HDD
ATi Radeon 9600XT
DVD-ROM
CD-RW

Ran RH9, FC1, and FC2T1 without troubles...


> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:19:11 +0100
> From: "Aled Hughes" <fedora-test-list magra demon co uk>
> Subject: RE: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2
> To: "'For testers of Fedora Core development releases'"
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> I too had exactly the same problem with missing inittab and also various
> rc.* scripts. Initially I had this with a rawhide version just prior to
> test2, but after getting test2 and installing onto an empty existing
> reiserfs partition, it still happened. I had SELinux in 'warn' mode.
> When I reinstalled and told it to reformat the root partition as ext3 the
> init problem was resolved. So I concluded the problem is related to using
> reiserfs.
>
> My system still doesn't boot correctly (sticks at "updating etc/fstab"), but
> that's an unrelated issue I need to further investiage.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of shmuel siegel
> Sent: 31 March 2004 03:01
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Another person's experience installing FC2 test 2
>
>
> I am running a dual boot Win2k/Fedora system. Originally formatted by
> Win2k for the NTFS and Fat32 partitions and formatted by RH7/8/9 for the
> ext3 and linux swap partitions.
> I got the already known complaints during the install. I couldn't do a
> hard disk install because I didn't have a driver. The CDROM install
> warned about partition alignment problems.
> I didn't upgrade my FC1 system but rather installed FC2 to an existing
> ext3 partition which I bravely reformatted as reiserfs. The installation
> went smoothly and rapidly.
> Rebooting, I found to my annoyance, that the boot loader was overridden
> and now pointed to somewhere that didn't have my fc1 configuration, thus
> forcing me to do some grub.conf editting. But more seriously, with
> selinux turned on, I couldn't start. init did not have the proper
> permissions. Rebooting with selinux turned off, didn't help since there
> was no inittab. Copying the inittab from fc1 didn't help since there was
> no rc.d/rc.
> How should I proceed?
>
>
>