an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade

[Rick Stevens]

Jones, Elton wrote:
> When upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 I receive the following error message in 
> Graphical and text based install:
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> an error occurred when finding the packages to upgrade
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> Then the system reeboots.
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> Although the message come after Boot Loader Configuration
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> I feel this message is directly related to the section for "Selecting 
> packages to upgrade".
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> As the error appears just before I get to this page
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> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/s1-upgrade-pkgsel.html

This smells of a CDROM DMA issue.  Assuming a standard config with your
CD as the master drive on the secondary controller, you might try the
upgrade again, but make the boot command off the CD:

	linux hdc=nodma

and see if that helps.

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