Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:

> I believe that one of the issues you're having with support is that probably
> none of us has ever attempted an upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2.  I would hazard a

ummm ... during the RH 7.2 public Beta phase, I tested
upgrades from RH 5.0 forward (although not with dual boot
hosts) on a mixture of IDE and SCSI without relevant incident.  
There were issues with a direct jump from a RH 4.2 box.

I would consider a recovery floppy boot into single user mode,
and editting the /etc/fstab to modify the references to ext2,
rather than ext3 (this is harmless, and allowed me to get a
clean fsck on a hosed partially converted partition)

Also, an unformatted mountpoint really confuses the 
initscripts.  Proof-read twice each, and if possible, boot 
froma known good minimal install on another drive, and use 
'fdisk' to confirm that you've not munged up /etc/fstab.

The sysadmin's recovery ISO burned onto a mini-CD makes this 
last simple.

-- Russ Herrold