I have RH6 installed and choosing the upgrade option during the install it reports there are no linux partitions on my system to upgrade. I have a SCSI CDROM with an adaptec 2940 controller, but my HD is IDE. I had no problems upgrading my system from previous versions using this setup ( 4.2 --> 5.0 --> 5.1 --> 6.0) but I suspect it's looking for a SCSI HD. My filesystem layout is: hda6 / hda1 /mnt/win hda3 /boot hda7 /usr hda8 /home
Please send me a copy of your fstab as well as dump from fdisk, as there are known problems in these areas and seeing them will help troubleshoot.
This bug is fixed by the installer updates on the errata site.
I downloaded the boot-RHEA-1999:044.img, and the updates-RHEA-1999:045.img files, verified them with md5sum and made diskettes from them. I booted from the boot disk, and at the lilo prompt entered "linux updates" and inserted the update disk when prompted to do so. It still reports no linux partitions found on my system when I choose the upgrade installation method. ------- Additional Comments From 10/26/99 05:43 ------- I have got the sama problem, except I have only IDE-devices. I downloaded bootnet-RHEA-1999:044.img and updates-RHEA-1999:045.img, verified with md5sum, made them into diskettes and tried to update with "linux updates expert". It asked for the update disk and read it ok, but it still didn't detect any Linux partitions to update. Here's my fstab /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/d vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/e vfat defaults 0 0 and fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 255 2048256 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 256 1869 12964455 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 766 1275 4096543+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 1276 1869 4771273+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 256 734 3847504+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 735 765 248976 82 Linux swap
We are aware that the "f"-type partition problem is not fixed in the latest errata update. We are in the process of putting together another errata release which will resolve this, but until then, the best workaround is to temporarily change the "f"-type partition to type "5" (also extended), perform the upgrade and then change the partition back to type "f". Please refer to bug #5511 for more information about this fix. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5511 ***