[Aurora-sparc-devel] [corona] fstab.sys?

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:55 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 12:38, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 14:51 +0100, Christian Joensson wrote:
> > > I just tried to boot with kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.al3.1 (on UltraSparc
> > > 10) with no go.. the system tried mounting the fs but found no
> > > fstab.sys and halted booting.
> > >
> > > Is this "ordinary problems" or am I simply missing an fstab.sys that I
> > > can write (with the help from yu guys here)?
> >
> > Umm, this is new to me. Did you update to the corona tree at the same
> > time? It might be something that newer mkinitrd provides.
> >
> > ~spot
> 
> I did an upgrade to corona at the end of last week. it was mostly smooth 
> sailing.
> 
> Due to the autofs conflicts with kernel < 2.6.16 i ended up force installing 
> the new kernel. removed the running kernel did my yum update  then yum 
> install kernel-smp and removed the up kernel.   I did it like that to make 
> sure the initrd was built with the newest mkinitrd. then i rebooted and 
> prayed for the best.  everything came up fine.  definitely not the best way 
> to go about doing the upgrade.

Mmm .. that's a bit of a problem.
The upgrade refuses to install autofs because the previous kernel
probably doesn't support the required version protocol version, but the
incoming kernel does.

Not sure how to get around this, suggestions?

Ian