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 at silverservers.com
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 at 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?
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 at silverservers.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos