Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

[doug piper <dpiper qadas com>]

Thanks,

I think that I will need to decide whether to do a new installation or try to
create my own boot disk based on what I have from 6.0.


Thanks for your thoughful input.

Doug

R P Herrold wrote:

> 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
>
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