At 2:49 PM -0500 5/24/07, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 15:36:16 -0400, > Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> At 2:55 PM -0400 5/24/07, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> >Jarod Wilson wrote: >> >> Okay, fc6 mdraid to f7 upgrading via anaconda works for me now. >> >> >> >>> Once that's done, I'll see what I can do to see if the kernel option >> >>> libata.ignore_hpa can be used to help those who don't really wanna >> >>> nuke their entire system to move from FC6 to F7. >> >> >> >> Starting in on this right now... >> > >> >Got the problem reproducing, but... >> > >> > Unknown boot option 'libata.ignore_hpa=1': ignoring >> > >> >Talked to davej, module parameters can't be passed on the command line >> >just yet. So anyone with an FC6 system that uses part of the host >> >protected area is currently not able to upgrade to F7 using anaconda >> >(FC6 to F7 can be done with some modprobe.conf magic and upgrading via >> >yum though). >> > >> >davej is going to poke some folks who were working on a patch to allow >> >module parameters to be passed on the kernel command line. >> >> Well, this keeps me from upgrading to F7! > >If you are using the HPA area, couldn't you update the disk so that the >area isn't there any more? The wikipedia entry for HPA suggests that there >is a command for getting the real size and another for updating the boundry. >So it sounds like you should be able to update this on F6 before doing the >upgrade. It seems doable but would need at least two backups, as the first one will almost certainly be put to use as the real data. And all for a measily 34 MB that is automatically discovered by the current kernels. If a tested tool makes it into extras I'll do it with one backup! -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
