Bug 924

Summary:	upgrade can't start with DPT scsi card
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	matthew_temple
Component:	rhl-ig-x86	Assignee:	Sandra Moore <smoore>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2	CC:	adstrong
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Description matthew_temple 1999-01-22 21:47:04 UTC

When trying to upgrade RHL 5.0 to RHL 5.2, I ran into a
problem because some of the partitions were accessed via a
DPT scsi card.  (The / /usr and /home partitions were on
/dev/hda.  There seems not to be support for the DPT card in
the installer kernel, so the upgrade failed with the error
"mount failed, block device required"

The fix I used was to boot back into old operating system,
edit fstab so that these scsi-based partitions didn't mount,
then upgrade.  But what would I have done if I needed one of
the partitions on the DPT controller for the upgrade?

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-02-04 22:06:59 UTC

We are aware of this problem and will hope to have a solution for the
next release.