Re: [SLE]Upgrade to 10.0 grub setup failed

From: Kastus (NOSPAM_at_tprfct.net)
Date: 11/21/05

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    On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:24:49PM -0600, Philip Washington wrote:
    > I am trying to upgrade 9.3 to 10.0. After numerous packages failed to
    > load, I finally got to the point where grub was to upgrade. At this
    > point I get an error that it cannot find the hard drive / partition it
    > is looking for.

    I'm just curious, how many drives do you have?

    I have 2 IDE disks and have been suffering from this problem
    upgrading 9.1-9.2 and 9.2->9.3. Surpisingly, 9.3->10.0 went smoothly
    without this nasty problem, so it might be not your case.

    > Is there some way that I can get to a command line and find out what is
    > going on. Find out what hard drive it is actually seeing and where it
    > should put grub?

    You can switch to command line on virtual console 2 or 3 using Ctl-Alt-F2 or 3.
    Sorry, I don't remember exactly which console command line prompt is on.
    But I don't think it's gonna help you to move on from that point.
    Installer just gets stuck.

    What I did during previous upgrades to work around this problem,
    I had to physically disconnect second drive from IDE bus and then perform
    upgrade. After new system is installed I connect the second drive back.

    -Kastus 

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