Upgrade of a running Red Hat 5.2 system to 6.0 fails after asking if any SCSI devices (no) with the message the the mount failed, device busy. separate 10meg boot partition on an ide device below the 1024 cylinder boundry. same failure on 3 different systems.
Are you using a CdRom to upgrade? Booting from the Cd or from a floppy? Is this by any chance a hard drive install, ie the RPMs are located on the hard drive you are upgrading? ------- Email Received From "Don Hughes" <dhughes> 06/12/99 13:03 -------
Try booting the upgrade process from cdrom rather than booting from the boot disks that you downloaded. There is a possibility that the boot disks are corrupt and that is leading to the problem that you are seeing. ------- Email Received From "Don Hughes" <dhughes> 06/14/99 22:09 ------- ------- Additional Comments From 06/15/99 03:34 ------- I had exactly the same problem when I tried to upgrade from RH 5.2 (heavily updated already by hand, including the kernel to the latest 2.2 available at the moment). I tried the following (all combinations): - booting either from floppy or from a bootable CD I have created, using both the boot.img file provided in the RHL 6.0 RPMS and the one provided as update - installing from a HDD partition (/dev/hdc11, 1 GB, only used to store install kits, usually unmounted!) or from the above mentioned CD The solution was to manually umount /mnt, after the first 'device busy' message, hit 'retry' and afterwards all worked fine. Looks to me like the bug already mentioned on bugzilla (#2499/2504/2505 and so on) Manuel Wolfshant (wolfy67) ------- Email Received From "Don Hughes" <dhughes> 06/16/99 20:45 -------
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