Bug 924 – upgrade can't start with DPT scsi card

Bug 924 - upgrade can't start with DPT scsi card

Summary:	upgrade can't start with DPT scsi card

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rhl-ig-x86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Sandra Moore
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Reported:	1999-01-22 16:47 EST by matthew_temple
Modified:	2014-08-04 18:22 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-02-04 17:06:23 EST
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Description matthew_temple 1999-01-22 16:47:04 EST

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 17:06:59 EST

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

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