[lug] SElinux Relabel

[stimits at comcast.net]

One update that I hope helps other people in the future...it turns out that if I do disable selinux on my old distribution via the new grub2 config, that the old distribution does indeed boot up fine. I still have not determined if this is due to relabel during fedora 19 install when I named extra partitions to mount under /usr/local/old/, or if I actually did not have selinux running before. What is obvious is that when the fedora 19 installer deals with some combination of figuring out how to boot and mount old partitions, that the old system does not boot because of changes in selinux-related configuration.

The best way to deal with it? No idea...but turning off selinux via selinux=0 in the kernel parameters of the old distribution grub2 is a successful workaround. If I recall correctly (and this install was long ago), I probably had selinux set to only warn. I can definitively say that the old distribution's grub2 config did NOT disable selinux, and that my current new fedora 19 install did not prompt for any kind of selinux config or disk relabel.

I still intend to research the older distribution's selinux settings to determine what its intended operation was, so I can figure out if it was the new install breaking labels or if it was an issue with the boot loader configuration.
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