-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Monday 23 February 2004 5:19 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: <whack> > I had a problem with the 2.6 kernel not booting after I did the first > boot after the upgrade. I rebooted into the "old-linux" kernel which > came up as 9.2 and it then said that it found a mouse. I told it ok, > and viola, been using 2.6.2-3 ever since. > > Troy > Been there, done that Troy. <g>
I've installed or upgraded 9.1 and 9.2 systems from both betas 1 & 2 or RC1 and upgraded to cooker for quite a number of people with quite different systems. Everything just worked other than the usual cooker (fixable) gotchas. In addition to 2 fresh installs on new systems for 2 others Saturday and Sunday. Allasame like dat. <eg> This is different. My difficulty with 2.6 kernels seems to be either a hardware problem (highly unlikely) or the file system on hda. The reason I say that is simply that a USB drive formatted XFS on this machine when it still ran Five Stars (9.2) is available, can be browsed, and is writable as root on any GNU/Linux system that I've plugged it into. The drive was set up the same day I did the full install of 9.2 Final here. However on one of the new systems I mentioned I had installed RC1 I tried to use it as a source for the upgrade from RC1 to current using the boot.iso from cooker. I got a "No valid file system detected" warning/error from that, whether the drive was still in the USB cradle or if I slaved it directly to hda. I had to boot back into RC1, copy the cooker tree from that drive to the system's second hard drive, then do the hd upgrade that way. It worked very well and was exceptionally quick and painless, which is a good thing since they don't have a broad band connection for an ftp install/upgrade. I also taught them how to keep the tree current using rsync so they should be OK now; low bandwidth notwithstanding. I'm going to have to make a final stab at this sometime this week by using one of the LiveCD project disks to wipe hda completely, then try a fresh install. It's obvious to me that the boot, whether from an install disk or a regular boot, is stopping at a hardware (IDE) detection stage, There are no console messages or logs so I'm shooting in the dark, but IMHO it probably occurs because hda is all formatted XFS except a small ext3 /boot partition. It's not the first time a file system and/or kernel upgrade has bitten me on the ass, it's unlikely that it will be the last. (-; Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.rc4.1mdk 09:12:49 up 19:14, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.30, 0.50 Nonsense and beauty have close connections. -- E.M. Forster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAO39xZqvqlrLPr5YRAt79AKCX3EP7QAEBe/Y/JOalaNm+9rOU0QCggHhb 7RV5wa5ANaM3cl2ckO1SmDA= =yRGR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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