Re: CentOS 5 upgrade from 4.4 fails. Cannot mount /dev/md1 root partition

["Brent" <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I get the same error that you have when I try to upgrade from centos 4.4
to 5. I haven't tried to a clean install yet. I did try a clean install on
a VMWare machine and it gave me the same error.

> Have completed two clean installs of CentOS 5 with no issues (other than
> permissions on ~/.ssh directory.  One 32 bit system, one 64 bit.  When I
> tried an upgrade from 4.4 on 64 bit system with two SATA drives in Raid
> 1 configuration, anaconda could not mount the root partition /dev/md1.
> The error message suggested it was because the partition was not
> formated which is obviously not correct.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> B.J. McClure
>
> CentOS 4.4, Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp x86_64 19:37:58 up 10 min, 2
> users, load average: 0.10, 0.19, 0.14
>
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