Fedora Core 6 Install Problem on dual boot Thinkpad

[Charles Curley]

Brian, please keep these on the list so that others can pitch in if
they see something. I'm out of ideas, so I hope someone else does.

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:19:40PM -0400, Brian Kaye wrote:
> I tried again and got as far as the scree after the decision to install
> or upgrade. I chose upgrade and the next screen had a message which said:
> 
> The installer is unable to detect the boot
> loader currently in use on your system.
> 
> What would you like to do?
> 
> The two choices were to
>   skip boot loader updating or
>   create new boot loader configuration.
> 
> When I went to CTRL-ALT-F3 there were a number of ERROR messages of the
> form:
> 
> ERROR  : could not create directory /mnt/sysimage//user/local: File exists
> After these messages there was several messages of the form:
> INFO   : moving(1) step to upgradecontinue
> INFO   : moving(1) step to upgrademigfind
> INFO   : moving(1) step to upgbootloader
> 
> When I went to CTRL-ALT-F4 everything looked OK.
> I went to CTRL-ALT-F2 and entered a mount command in the shell there and
> everything looked mounted.
> 
> I have been through a FC3->FC4->FC5 upgrade process in the past on this
> machine. I stopped the upgrade at this point because I dind't want to
> trash the machine.

I'm out of ideas. Anyone else?

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