Problem with installing a new harddisk...

[Daniel J Walsh]

jckyau at cs.hku.hk wrote:

>Hello Daniel,
>
>dwalsh at redhat.com wrote:
>  
>
>>jckyau cs hku hk wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am very new to SELinux, so, please bear with my ignorance.
>>>
>>>I have installed a Fedora Core 3 with SELinux enabled.  The system
>>>has been running pretty stable until I tried to installed a new harddisk
>>>to my system.  The system fails during the booting process if I have my
>>>new harddisk installed.  It stops booting whenever I reach the point of
>>>setting up the ppp (I rely on a PPPoE line to connect to the Internet).
>>>But it boots smoothly when I have the new harddisk removed.  I think it
>>>is a problem with SELinux (though I am not sure) as it gives me all
>>>kinds of complains regarding permissions.
>>>
>>>I am pretty sure that it isn't a problem with the harddisk, as this
>>>harddisk works fine when installed into another computer.  I've also
>>>tried to install another harddisk to my SELinux box, and got the same
>>>result.  Any clue?? 
>>>
>>>Many thanx in advance!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>It needs to be labeled.
>>
>>touch /.autorelabel
>>shutdown  machine
>>add disk
>>boot machine
>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>    
>>
>  Thank you for your reply.  However, it didn't work for me.  With
>  "/.autorelabel" and my new harddisk installed, the system took a
>  very long time to "relabel" the filesystem at the booting phase
>  (I guess it was my original root filesystem that it was relabeling),
>  and continued with the booting afterwards.  But the booting was done
>  (took a very long time), my root filesystem (which is the only
>  filesystem on my original harddisk) was mounted as readonly.
>  Certainly, a system with a readonly root filesystem doesn't do me any
>  good.  More suggestions?
>
>  Thanx!
>
>  
>
What kind of log messages are you getting?  What file system are you using?
Can you boot successfully with enfocing=0 on the kernel line?

Dan

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