Aargh! I am in upgrade hell. I tried to upgrade a system that was running 7.0 to 7.2. It is a dual boot system with Win 98 running in the other partition. The hard drive was partitioned originally using Partition Magic.
OK. I started the upgrade and I didn't think it through clearly enough. When it asked me what kind of loader I wanted to use, I thought I should just continue using Partition Magic, so I selected "do not install a boot loader". I followed the advice and upgraded to an ext3 file system. I chose all my upgrade packages and the system upgraded itself. Smoothly, it looked like. I made a floppy and was done. Of course, it didn't work. Partition Magic didn't know doodly squat about my new ext3 file system and hung when I tried to boot it. Win 98 still worked. Ah I thought, I would boot off the floppy. But that failed, said it failed to boot, so was useless. So I got rid of Partition Magic. Uninstalled both it and its companion, Boot Magic. I thought I would go back into the upgrade and try the new GRUB loader. So I rebooted to the CDROM once again, went through the upgrade rigamarole, added a couple of packages, but when it was all done, it said I hadn't changed the kernel, therefore it wouldn't write the boot image to disk!! Even though I'd changed the loader. Tried GRUB, LILO, no matter what I did after this point, it would not write the boot image. I even went in and installed the debug kernel thinking it would see this as a kernel change and write the boot image out. Nope. So I'm stuck here with what is probably a perfectly good Linux partition that cannot load because the installer refuses to write the boot image, and cannot generate a good boot floppy! (Oh yeah, I tried writing it out again to another floppy with the same results). This is REALLY annoying. Is there something I can do in the upgrade process to FORCE it to write the boot image? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
