I ran into a similar problem with the upgrade to 4.2 from 4.1, and
help on this list pointed me to the following link:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1050
In my case, I had more than 1 hard drive, and the second hard drive
wasn't usable. I had to remove, I believe, the dmraid package. You
didn't mention whether you have 1 or more hard drives.
On Nov 28, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Mickael Maddison wrote:
> Hello CentOS,
>
> I've just taken 2 old servers running CentOS 3.x, wiped it out, and
> installed CentOS 4.1
>
> The systems seemed to work fine with CentOS 4.1, but when I proceeded
> to run yum -y update, all the RPM's (101) download and seem to install
> fine - however, upon reboot, partitions such as /usr/ and /var will
> not mount (ext3). These machines both use the Intel S875WP1 P4
> Mainboards. Both use SATA Drives. One uses the promise controller
> (which on install seems to find a suitable driver).
>
> Anyway, I've also tried installing directly from the CentOS 4.2 Server
> CD, same issue. Install goes fine, but bootup won't mount /var
>
> Any idea what this is all about?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Mickael
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