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?
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?
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I tried two things at the same time. Not enabling selinux and not using reiserfs. Together this let me run the fc2. Very strange that the file system should make a difference. I had also initially tried reiserfs with warn mode for selinux.
I was going to report the problem but then noticed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119486 where Bill Nottingham says "reiserfs does not support extended attributes, so SELinux will not work with it."
so I guess that it is the file system.
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:19, Aled Hughes wrote:
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?
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, shmuel siegel wrote:
I tried two things at the same time. Not enabling selinux and not using reiserfs. Together this let me run the fc2. Very strange that the file system should make a difference. I had also initially tried reiserfs with warn mode for selinux.
I was going to report the problem but then noticed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119486 where Bill Nottingham says "reiserfs does not support extended attributes, so SELinux will not work with it."
so I guess that it is the file system.
You should be able to specify a default context for the entire filesystem in genfs_contexts, and/or use a context mount (i.e. mount -o context=some_context).
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