FC-2 to FC-3 upgrade, Error enabling swap device, no such file or directory

[pete]

Hi,

I am trying to upgrade one of my systems from FC-2 to FC-3 (I have had success on other systems, it is just this particular one - my guess it is something with the SATA disk which my other systems do not have):

AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1GB RAM, 200 GB disk SATA, swap partition is on that disk

I get through the first few questions and right after the question where I say I want to upgrade and not a clean install it gives this error message:

Error enabling swap device hde5: No such file or directory.
This most likely means this swap partition has not been initialized.
Press OK to reboot your system.

If I boot FC-2 it has that partition for swap and can find it just fine:

hurricane> swapon -s
    Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
    /dev/hde5                               partition       2040212 0       -1[/INDENT]
hurricane> cat /etc/fstab
    LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
    LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
    none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
    none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
    none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
    none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
    /dev/hde5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
    /dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
    /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
    /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

How do I tell the installer to either not use the swap partition or how to find it? It has the correct name for the partition but cannot seem to find it.

I have tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit ISOs so that has nothing to do with it, both fail in the same way.

Any help would be appreciated, worst case I'll have to do a clean install instead of the upgrade.
Thanks, Pete

[terr9898]

When you look through dmesg, do you see any errors regarding SATA?

[pete]

Looks pretty normal (during regular boot, not install)

...
VIA8237SATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
VIA8237SATA: chipset revision 128
VIA8237SATA: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
hde: ST3200822AS, ATA DISK drive

...

sata_promise version 0.92
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x42816200 ctl 0x42816238 bmdma 0x0 irq 5
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x42816280 ctl 0x428162B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 5
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata1: thread exiting
scsi0 : sata_promise
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata2: thread exiting
scsi1 : sata_promise
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
...
Adding 2040212k swap on /dev/hde5. Priority:-1 extents:1

When I first put this machine together I had to load a new BIOS into the A8V Deluxe motherboard so that Linux could see the SATA drive at all. No extra drivers were needed to get FC-2 going initially (for a minute there I was thinking I might need to provide a driver to the installer but I do not think that is the case).

Pete

[james_in_denver]

well, to disable that swap partition you could always just comment out the line in the "/etc/fstab" that adds that swap partition.

Then you could see if the partition table "sees" it with "fdisk -l /dev/yourdrivehere"

And you can always see if the swapspace is "valid" by doing a "swapon /dev/hde5"

and you can "re-initialize" the swap partition with "mkswap /dev/hde5 ; sync ; swapon /dev/hde5".