Thanks, I think that I will need to decide whether to do a new installation or try to create my own boot disk based on what I have from 6.0.
Thanks for your thoughful input. Doug R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > 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 > > ummm ... during the RH 7.2 public Beta phase, I tested > upgrades from RH 5.0 forward (although not with dual boot > hosts) on a mixture of IDE and SCSI without relevant incident. > There were issues with a direct jump from a RH 4.2 box. > > I would consider a recovery floppy boot into single user mode, > and editting the /etc/fstab to modify the references to ext2, > rather than ext3 (this is harmless, and allowed me to get a > clean fsck on a hosed partially converted partition) > > Also, an unformatted mountpoint really confuses the > initscripts. Proof-read twice each, and if possible, boot > froma known good minimal install on another drive, and use > 'fdisk' to confirm that you've not munged up /etc/fstab. > > The sysadmin's recovery ISO burned onto a mini-CD makes this > last simple. > > -- Russ Herrold > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
