Re: Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE

From: Richard Emberson (remberson_at_edgedynamics.com)
Date: 06/07/04

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    SUCCESS (see below)

    Richard Emberson wrote:
    > I have an older machine that can not boot from cdrom. Also, I had
    > some user data in one of the accounts.
    >
    > So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted
    > disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted:
    >
    > mount /dev/cdrom
    > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install
    > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img
    > umount /mnt/cdrom
    > and add entry like:
    > title Fedora Core 2 Installation
    > root (hd0,0)
    > kernel /FC2-install
    > initrd /FC2-install.img
    > to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot)
    >
    > Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and
    > after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that
    > I should click the reboot button ... which I did.
    >
    > Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the
    > grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so
    > and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install.
    >
    > hmmm.....
    >
    > I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1
    > and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was
    > successful and that I should click on the reboot button.
    >
    > Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1
    > and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and
    > compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success.
    >
    > I tried one more time with the same result.
    >
    > So how do I break out of this? I really dont care about either
    > php or compat-db, I'd like to somehow bypass installing them and
    > get on with the boot. Are there parameters one can give at the grub
    > command line to force a kernel load?
    >
    > Help! Thanks.
    >
    >
    >
    > Richard
    >
    >

    Thanks to the many replies.

    What I ended up doing ....

    My original system had two scsi disks: disk1 with /boot and /
    and the other, disk2, with /home and /usr/local and I did not want to
    lose /home and /usr/local - which is why I wanted to upgrade,
    not install.

    So I bought a new scsi (I do plan to build a new machine at home
    some time this Summer, so its not as extreme as one might think)
    using it to replace disk2
    and did a redhat 9.0 on my old machine.
    I then mounted FC2 disc1 and copied vmlinux and initrd as described
    above. I then via grub booted using the FC2 code and did a full
    install. It worked. Now I can just replace the new disk2 with the
    old and the upgrade is complete.

    IMPORTANT: the first time I did this - yes I did this twice - I
    for some unknown reason had disk1 contain /boot and /usr while
    the new disk2 had / - the redhat 9 install succeeded this succeeded but
    not the subsequent FC2 install!! - so the second time I had disk1
    contain /boot and / while the new disk2 had /home and /usr/local and
    for this combination FC2 install (after installing redhat 9 a
    second time) worked.

    Thanks again.

    Richard 

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