Upgrade Has Caused A Downgrade

[Stewart Williams]

Gene Poole wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations.  I've a 
> custom built machine that WAS running the following:
>        ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board
>        AMD 64 X2 Dual core 5600+
>        4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
>        nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card
>        2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB Seagate
>        550 watt Antec power supply
>        Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches
> 
> As my Xmas present I upgraded the machine to:
>        Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board
>        AMD Phenom Quad core 9550
>        8GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
>        Retained the video card from above
>        2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 - 1TB Seagate
>        850 watt Antec power supply
> 
> I attempted to install, from the same DVD used on the original machine, 
> Fedora 9 x86_64 with 4 failures at just about the same place while 
> installing packages.  I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and all went well 
> during the install so attempted to do a upgrade to x86_64 without luck. 
>  I did a test using my Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and it installed perfectly. 
>  I then attempted to do a upgrade to Fedora 9 without any luck (it 
> appeared to fail at about the same place).  I then downloaded and burned 
> another copy of the Fedora 9 x86_64 DVD, checked it and attempted to do 
> another install and one again it failed at about the same place.
> 
> What could possibly be happening?  I since reinstalled Fedora 8, but 
> that has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to Fedora 10 
> x86_64?  Should I have entered something in the boot parameters 
> concerning the additional memory?
> 
> Any help or advice would be great!
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole
> 

Maybe try a re-spin ISO with updated packages, in case the problem has 
been fixed or is non-existant with a newer install?

http://spins.fedoraunity.org/

Got to be worth a try!