Re: SuSE 8.2 upgrade problems
From: stephan beal (stephan_at_wanderinghorse.net)
Date: 08/05/03
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:00:46 +0200
Peter Sutter wrote:
> I am actually doing this to explore the feasability of upgrading from SuSE
> v8.0 to SuSE v8.2 for one of my customers. I convinced him that if he
> moves to Linux, specially SuSE, the upgrade problems he had under
> Microsoft would be over once and for all. Being a careful person, I
> thought I better try it out on one of my systems first. With the
> experienced results, I may have promised my customer too much.
8.0 was one of my all-time favorite Suse releases, and i keep it around on
one machine. 8.2 is /much/ nicer in the KDE department, however, so whether
an upgrade is in order depends on what you'll be doing with it. If you're
trying to convert an MS user, use 8.2.
> Why can the upgrade not read the existing lilo and install it correctly,
> it didn't even prompt, it just overwrote the mbr!
8.2 doesn't use lilo by default, it uses grub instead.
> I removed the network card under yast, then re-installed
> it again. It autodetects the card as a Realtek RT8139, which is correct,
> but the network interface doesn't get started. modprobe 8139too reports
> can't locate module 8139too. What other choice do I have?
It sounds like you've got a lower-level problem there. i've got 8139 cards
on at least 6 machines (3 of them are suse 8.2).
> 3. starting soundcard fails. The soundcard is an on-board AC97, using
> via82cxx_audio as driver module wand as working nicely under 8.2. I
> removed the soundcard under yast and added it again. YaST2 detects it as
> an VT826C686 AC97, and tries to use module snd-via686, and reports that an
> error occurred during installation of snd-via686, module could not be
> loaded. Both modprobe snd-via686 and modprobe via82cxxx_audio fail with
> can't locate module.
Suse has been known to change module names/aliases between releases, and if
your module name was changed between 8.0 and 8.2 you may have to do some
fiddling with /etc/modules.conf (i had to do this after one of the 7.x
updates, IIRC, with my sound driver).
> How do I get this system running again, at least the network and
> hotplugging?
i strongly suspect that your system has been the victim of "upgrade woes",
and i would recommend doing a clean install of 8.2. i would highly
recommend against doing a two-revision upgrade (as you did, going from 8.0
to 8.2).
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