upgrading to 9, can't find rh7 install?

[Ajay Sharma <ssharma odc net>]

Hello,

Last night I tried to upgrade our database server.  It's a dual p3 box 
with raid5 (on a metaraid controller).  After I backed up everything I 
popped in the redhat 9 install disc and proceeded to upgrade it.  But it 
got stuck right off the bad because it couldn't find the redhat 7.0 
installation.

I wish I had the error in front of me but it was something like 
"/dev/sda:  can't load partition table" or "unrecognized partition 
table", something to that effect.  It loaded the megaraid module just 
fine and was able to see the drive so I don't understand why the 
partition table is screwed up?  I booted back into redhat 7 and here's 
what the partition table looks like in fdisk:

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1         3     24097   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             4       105    819315   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           106       236   1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           237      3349  25005172+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           237       628   3148739+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           629      3285  21342352   83  Linux
/dev/sda7          3286      3349    514079+  82  Linux swap

I've been migrating servers to redhat 9 for the past few months and I've 
only got a handful to go so I'd really like to get this fixed.  Plus, 
the fact that rh7 is no longer supported is really bugging me.  :)

thanks,
ajay

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Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma 
ssharma odc net
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