Rawhide

[glennzo]

Today I upgraded an old FC6 install to Rawhide. I see a few problems with it and am confused as to where to report these 'bugs' or ask questions about it. Additionally, I don't see too much discussion of Rawhide in these forums. Are there many users here using Rawhide?

Here's what I see as an oddity. I have three hard disks installed in this computer. In FC6 they are seen as /dev/hda b and d. In Rawhide they are seen as /dev/sda ,b and c. The disks are all ATA and not SATA. Here's fdisk -l in Rawhide:

[glenn@dad ~]$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 2433 19457 136753312+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2433 4864 19535008+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 4865 7296 19535008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 7297 9728 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 9729 12160 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 12161 14592 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 14593 17024 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 17025 19457 19543041 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 125 1004031 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 126 9729 77144130 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 126 9729 77144098+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 2551 19929 139596817+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
[glenn@dad ~]$

[SlowJet]

Go to Fedora News at the top of the forums, then click on the Fedora Portal tab.

And start reading the lists

devl
extras
announce

You probably should have asked your questions first as rawhide is changing in many ways.

I suggest you just plug along and learn on what you NOW have and then download and re-install FC7T1 when is comes out next month.

To answer your question about the hd and sa
The newer kernels treat the hard disks as scsi dev because the scsi driver code is now used in the ata drivers. This is good except for machines that had their hd dev configured logically somehow vs. the normal pci control seq.
In such cases an hde could become an sdf or such.

Be careful about what you update from now until FC7T1 is out, coz there is no going back from here on out.

SJ

[glennzo]

Originally Posted by SlowJet

Go to Fedora News at the top of the forums, then click on the Fedora Portal tab.

And start reading the lists

devl
extras
announce

Great! I didn't think of looking at Fedora News.

Originally Posted by SlowJet

You probably should have asked your questions first as rawhide is changing in many ways.

I suggest you just plug along and learn on what you NOW have and then download and re-install FC7T1 when is comes out next month.

I knew what I was getting into. I did some reading before I jumped in. Plus, as I said, this is an older install that is disposable.

Originally Posted by SlowJet

To answer your question about the hd and sa
The newer kernels treat the hard disks as scsi dev because the scsi driver code is now used in the ata drivers. This is good except for machines that had their hd dev configured logically somehow vs. the normal pci control seq.
In such cases an hde could become an sdf or such.

So this is what one would expect to see then? I'll have to look closely at what's mounted. Apparently things aren't necessarily going to be where I'm used to them being.

Originally Posted by SlowJet

Be careful about what you update from now until FC7T1 is out, coz there is no going back from here on out.SJ

It's disposable, I can always reinstall and start over. That's what I do.

[SlowJet]

good, then update away and file bugs for me .

SJ

[glennzo]

Sure will. Matter of fact, Gnome Terminal crashed on me in the last session. Error message suggested installing bug-buddy and submitting reports. I'll file reports. That's not too much to ask. I've certainly taken a lot from the Linux community. Gotten tons of help from people in the forums and resources on the web. I look at this as a way to give back. My pleasure.