Re: [Cooker] Bamboo upgrade of 9.1RC1 system failure
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:08, Todd Lyons wrote: Was it that / ran out of room or do you have a seperate /boot and it ran out of room? Just / - no seperate /boot in that config. The symptoms are pretty tragic - it just hangs! Recovery is not quite so pleasant, as it turned out.. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
Re: [Cooker] Bamboo upgrade of 9.1RC1 system failure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin J. Maciunas wrote on Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:07:50AM +0930 : Just upgraded my SMP box from 9.1RC1 - Bamboo. The problem was my root partition - I had quite a bunch of kernels in there (my fault, I need to spring clean more often). The machine has Was it that / ran out of room or do you have a seperate /boot and it ran out of room? Yes, that's something that needs to be aware of during installation due to the carryover of the old days where vmlinuz needed to be below cylinder 1024. Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Hey, I'm perfectly reasonable once you realize I'm right. -- John Buttery on Mutt Users ML Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+i7q0lp7v05cW2woRAt5dAJ4jI9v18YN91htoJo9MNa2Fw6EShQCeOFQ4 idLOEIA3RCpGTP7jfSGblco= =bqnF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker] Bamboo upgrade of 9.1RC1 system failure
Just upgraded my SMP box from 9.1RC1 - Bamboo. It failed. Spectacularly - unable to boot as a result of a crash while upgrading the kernel package! The problem was my root partition - I had quite a bunch of kernels in there (my fault, I need to spring clean more often). The machine has 1GB of memory, so the default install peels off the normal kernel, SMP and Enterprise. I think DrakX needs to check more carefully the available space - If I was a non-hacker type user and had upgraded 8.2-9-9.1-... then it is quite likely I'd accumulate a *lot* of old kernels.. I think any recent Windows refugee would find this pretty disturbing (Grub loaded the bootstrap, but couldn't find the initrd in my case). This was actually easy for me to recover, of course. When I cleaned up and re-applied the upgrade, it only gave me the option to upgrade from Dolphin, BTW. So a broken 9.0/9.1/9.1RC1 system looks like 8.2 to DrakX! Cheers /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Computer Science Ph : +61 8 8303 5845 University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366 Adelaide 5005 SOUTH AUSTRALIA Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kevin Fingerprint = 7E5A A0C2 22BC 5993 17F2 93CE B1FD DEC6 D0C0 50CD
