I installed FC5 on an old Compaq server and I have done it a couple of times. The time before I only had a couple of the devices with ! in the name. I had to use linux text to get it to install. Don't think it has much of a video card. Can anyone tell me why the ! in the device name with df? fdisk doesn't show it.
# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ida!c0d0p3 509796 196504 286976 41% / /dev/ida/c0d0p2 197562 9228 178134 5% /boot tmpfs 128072 0 128072 0% /dev/shm /dev/ida!c0d0p9 126419 5671 114221 5% /home /dev/ida!c0d0p7 509780 16852 466616 4% /tmp /dev/ida!c0d0p6 2975888 2218184 604096 79% /usr /dev/ida!c0d0p5 2975888 125908 2696372 5% /var /dev/ida!c0d0p10 762724 17204 706152 3% /var/tmp
Also selinux stops it from booting. Had to add selinux=0 into grub command line to get it to boot. I don't remember having the option during the intall to turn off selinux. In the Xwindows install yes, text install no. And I ran into the problem with network cards switching names. dmesg lists them one way and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf has them the other way.
Thanks, Jerry
Looks like I have 2 device files. Is this for selinux?
# ls -l /dev/ida* brwx------ 1 root root 72, 0 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 1 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p1 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 10 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p10 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 2 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p2 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 3 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p3 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 4 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p4 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 5 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p5 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 6 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p6 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 7 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p7 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 8 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p8 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 9 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p9
/dev/ida: total 0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 0 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 1 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p1 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 10 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p10 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 2 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p2 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 3 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p3 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 4 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p4 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 5 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p5 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 6 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p6 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 7 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p7 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 8 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p8 brw-r----- 1 root disk 72, 9 Mar 29 17:46 c0d0p9
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Williams Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:50 PM To: 'For testers of Fedora Core development releases' Subject: ! in disk device name?
I installed FC5 on an old Compaq server and I have done it a couple of times. The time before I only had a couple of the devices with ! in the name. I had to use linux text to get it to install. Don't think it has much of a video card. Can anyone tell me why the ! in the device name with df? fdisk doesn't show it.
# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ida!c0d0p3 509796 196504 286976 41% / /dev/ida/c0d0p2 197562 9228 178134 5% /boot tmpfs 128072 0 128072 0% /dev/shm /dev/ida!c0d0p9 126419 5671 114221 5% /home /dev/ida!c0d0p7 509780 16852 466616 4% /tmp /dev/ida!c0d0p6 2975888 2218184 604096 79% /usr /dev/ida!c0d0p5 2975888 125908 2696372 5% /var /dev/ida!c0d0p10 762724 17204 706152 3% /var/tmp
Also selinux stops it from booting. Had to add selinux=0 into grub command line to get it to boot. I don't remember having the option during the intall to turn off selinux. In the Xwindows install yes, text install no. And I ran into the problem with network cards switching names. dmesg lists them one way and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf has them the other way.
Thanks, Jerry
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:49:01PM -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
Looks like I have 2 device files. Is this for selinux?
# ls -l /dev/ida* brwx------ 1 root root 72, 0 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 1 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p1 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 10 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p10 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 2 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p2 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 3 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p3 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 4 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p4 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 5 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p5 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 6 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p6 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 7 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p7 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 8 Mar 29 10:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p8 brwx------ 1 root root 72, 9 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p9
looks like a udev bug. the kernel exports it as /sys/block/ida!c0d0 (because '/' in a name is invalid). udev should be munging it back to a slash.
Dave
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
brwx------ 1 root root 72, 9 Mar 29 17:46 /dev/ida!c0d0p9
I had similar problems on a compaq machine, kept yum updating it with selinux disabled until it magically started working today.
looks like a udev bug. the kernel exports it as /sys/block/ida!c0d0 (because '/' in a name is invalid). udev should be munging it back to a slash.
Which explains it...
- James
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 00:17 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
looks like a udev bug.
*cough* driver bug *cough*
the kernel exports it as /sys/block/ida!c0d0 (because '/' in a name is invalid). udev should be munging it back to a slash.
Hardly a good way to "fix" the root problem.
Maybe the driver just needs updating to not use '/' in the kernel name and udev can be tweaked via rules to provide the right device names if user space code relies on it. Of course, such user space code would be fragile by design but it's getting old.
David
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