Re: Upgrade RHEL3 x86_64 to RHEL4 x86?

[Terje Bless <link pobox com>]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org> wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 16:03 +0200, Terje Bless wrote:
>>[…] upgrade it RHEL3-x86_64 --> RHEL4-x86.
>
>ewww
>
>this is sooo going to be really messy.. I suggest a reinstall. Really.

Heh. Not one to pass up a challenge like that — given the box had to be
reinstalled in any case — I went ahead and gave it a try anyway. :-)

For future reference, this won't work at all it seems; you get a kernel panic
during boot trying to locate the filsystem kernel modules.


Oh well. Worth a shot. Thanks for the warning Arjan!


Now if only some genious hadn't ordered this particular box without an
out-of-band management card… :-(


-link; off to the datacentre to reboot and juggle CDs…


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