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
guess that more people do fresh installs of Linux than do upgrades. I've
heard one (very experienced) adminstrator complain that the upgrade from one
release to the next later release trashed his system to the point where it
was easier to do a fresh install. I would also hazard a guess that a large
majority of people here do not use floppy boot disks, so your possibles
avenue of support are getting limited.
I haven't verified this, but I'd be surprised if the current XFree86 is
supported on Red Hat Linux 6.0. A LOT of things have changed in the couple
of years since 6.0 was released.
I will state that most people are happy with 7.2, based on the discussions
I've seen (of course, there are always exceptions). If you're able to do a
fresh install and know what all your configurations were on your 6.0 system,
and have backups of your personal data (you DID do backups before you
started, didn't you?), you're probably better off doing a fresh install of
7.2 rather than trying to go back to 6.0. After all, I suspect you don't
want to be stuck with 6.0 forever, and you still wouldn't have a plan going
forward to support your new video card.
Good luck,
.../Ed
Ed Wilts
Mounds View, MN, USA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "doug piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2
> Last Friday, I installed 7.2 as an upgrade to 6.0. Since then I have
> been unable to boot into Linux. I created a floppy boot disk with the
> install RedHat CDs. When I start up the following happens:
>
> Checking root filesystems (OK)
> Remounting root filesystems in read-srite mode (OK)
> Finding module dependicies (OK)
> fsck.ext2(null):
>
> The superblock could not be read .... you might try running e2fsck with
> an alternate superblock:
>
> e3fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
> :Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/fd0
>
> At this point it stops and I have to hit restart button.
> I have bought new floppy disks. I replaced the floppy drive all with no
> result. I made another floppyboot disk with mkbootdisk. I formatted a
> blank floppy to ext2 with another box and used that to make boot disk.
>
> Redhat support has not helped me. They seems to generally not read
> questions and give whatever answer first comes to their mind. I asked
> this question of this list on Friday and received not a single answer.
>
> Details: Athalon 700hz processor on epox board (ran fine with 6.0). I
> choose Grub rather than Lilo. 2 separate hard drives with 1 running
> wind 98 and the 2nd entirely Linux.
>
> I've been working on this for 5 days now and always end up with the same
> result. It is truely making me crazy. I am about to erase the 2nd drive
> and go back to 6.0 but the reason why I started this whole trip was that
> I added a new video card which isn't supported in XWindows that came
> with 6.0. I thought mistakenly that it would be better to upgrade to 7.2
> than upgrade the XWindows version.
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