Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

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

Regards,

Hans