Failed RH9 to FC2 upgrade
John McBride
jmcbride at ccis.com
Fri Sep 10 05:18:09 UTC 2004
John Rowan wrote:
> I have a beautifully working dual boot RH 9 / Windows Millenium
> Edition with GRUB managing which booted. Having installed FC2 on a
> Compaq Proliant 6500 with new hard drives I figured I'd try upgrading
> my Dell Dimensions 866 from RH 9 / WindowsMe to FC2/WindowsMe. I
> booted from disc 1 which passed checks and MD5SUM on the ISO images.
> It reported that the partition geometry was set incorrectly by another
> program but I could ignore and fix later. 30 minutes into the install
> the machine rebooted back to the initial welcome / check CD prior to
> install. I started the install again, opting this time to format the
> partion as there was nothing on the Linux side I needed (a test
> machine). The install proceeded on through asking for disc 2 then 3.
> Ten minutes into disc 3 the machine rebooted leaving me without a boot
> loader. I tried installing again choosing to upgrade the FC2
> install. It asked for disc 3, then said nothing was changed and the
> boot loader would not be upgraded. I rebooted and just a grub>
> prompt. It's too late to start a multi CD install now. I don't want
> to loose the Me partition as it has my Novell client, Arcserve and
> lots of other stuff I need. I guess I'll have to reinstall RH 9?
>
Take a look at fedorafaq.org, near the end of the page, the part about
acpi and apm. Edit the kernel options and see if the install goes any
better.
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John
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