Bug 5789
| Summary: | RedHat upgrade 6.0 -> 6.1 from hard drive: failure | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | adavid |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | andrew, milanoa, srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-10-21 16:25:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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You will want to use the pcmcia.img disk when trying to use a pcmcia device for installation. This is why the bootnet.img file did not work for you . . . the card manager stuff is not on that disk. As for the error that you are receiving, do you have any NTFS partitions on the machine? ------- Additional Comments From 10/11/99 09:48 ------- I have noticed the change in the installation disks, that's better now, so I tried pcmcia.img, it recognizes my hardware and goes on but on the "finding padkages to update" message: * if I check the customize checkbox, the machines stays silent: no network activity and no hardrive activity after a short time and during 5 minutes or so * if I do not check the checkbox, the network seems active, but nothing happens even after one hour. This may be due to a network problem, I'll try later on, but the server responds normally, so it's strange. My try from the hard-drive failed as well and I gave the description. What is your diagnostic concerning these tries? ------- Additional Comments From 10/13/99 04:08 ------- I had confirmation on a network problem here, however the local installation problem from the hard drive still remains. My only partitions on my disk are: hda1: windows 98 hda5: Linux (only one mount for root) +swap and I had RH6.1 on hda1 to install it on hda5. I tried to install RH6.1 on a RH5.2 system with this disk configuration (fstab): /dev/hda2 / ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 /dev/hda1 /dosc vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /export ext2 exec,dev,nosuid,rw 2 2 /dev/hdb4 /home/butter ext2 exec,dev,nosuid,rw 2 2 /dev/hda3 none swap sw /dev/hda4 none swap sw /dev/hdb1 none swap sw /dev/hdb2 none swap sw and I got the same error for a local installation. Alexandre |
It would be nice to have a Component section directly related to the boot-install images. I put this in installer for this reason. Priority high because if the problem is confirmed it means that the boot image has a real problem. My system is RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.10, upgraded from hard drive from a previous RH 5.2. This time I wanted to do the same to RH 6.1 but the process stopped with errors after the second phase of the system exploration. First it searched for redhat installation, this went OK, but the next one seemed to work but I got this (copied by hand): ------------------- Traceback(innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real",line 225, in ? intf.run(todo,test=test) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 1000, in run rc=apply(step[1](),step[2]) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/text.py", line 251, in __call__ todo upgradeFindPackages(root) File "/tmp/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 1155, in upgradeFindPackages packages=rpm.findUpgradeSet(self.hdList.hdlist,self.instPath) rpm.error: error during upgrade check [OK] [Debug] ---------------- My rpm version is 3.0.2 and I tried the upgrade after rpm --rebuildb to be sure that the database was OK, and it was. I have copied the RedHat directory on a different partition than my linux partition as it should be done. /Alexandre PS: I could not use bootnet because it simply does NOT work with my TI1225 pcmcia controller, although it works fine under my installed Linux (from /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 3, function 0: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Unknown device (rev 1). Vendor id=104c. Device id=ac1c. Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=192.Max Lat=7. )