Bug 924 - upgrade can't start with DPT scsi card
Summary: upgrade can't start with DPT scsi card
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rhl-ig-x86
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sandra Moore
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Reported: 1999-01-22 21:47 UTC by matthew_temple
Modified: 2014-08-04 22:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-02-04 22:06:23 UTC
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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.
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