Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE

[Richard Emberson]

I've tried the fedora-list without success so please bear with me
while I discribe my plight:

I've got an older VALinux machine and I can not boot from CD.

So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted
disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted:


mount /dev/cdrom
cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install
cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img
umount /mnt/cdrom
and add entry like:
title Fedora Core 2 Installation
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /FC2-install
         initrd /FC2-install.img
to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot)


Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and 
after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that
I should click the reboot button ... which I did.

Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the
grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so
and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install.


hmmm.....

I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1
and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was
successful and that I should click on the reboot button.


Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1
and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and
compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success.


I tried one more time with the same result.

At this point (with advise from the fedora-list) at the grub gui
I entered the command mode and looked at what was in the /boot
directory. Well, vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 is there (the only vmlinuz file)
but initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img is not there (neither is memtest86+-1.11),
though there are some initrd-2.4.* files still.

I wanted to try the following from grub:

root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
boot

but since initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img is not there I can not.


So, what can I do? None of the grub network commands, e.g., ifconfig,
seem to be available. How do I get a copy of initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
onto the disk?

Thanks


Richard