Though used on a supported system (Exxtreme Blaster and MAG XJ700T) shows severe flickering, looks like screen divided horizontally into 4 fields, almost illegible. During upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 crashes (freeze) after RH6.0 partition not found in /dev/hda1) during 'search for valid partition ...' (which is on /dev/hda5).
Okay, just went through the bugzilla and read, that the problem of upgrading was to be solved with the new images (22-10-99). Since I used these, in my case it is still unresolved. I have a primary partition NTFS and my Linux on /dev/hda5 (ext2) and /dev/hda6 (swap). In text mode the upgrade doesn't work either. (though the display is correct, hahaha)
Please provide more information about the problems that you are seeing when using the latest boot images. The NTFS problem is fixed according to out testing and feedback from users, so there is probably another issue happening here.
What more to say ... ? I use the 044/045 images on the following drive: Device Boot Start End Blocks id System /dev/hda1 * 1 508 2048224+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 509 779 1092672 5 Extended /dev/hda5 * 509 737 923296+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 738 754 68512+ 82 Linux swap NTFS boots 'on its own', Linux with a boot diskette. Why don't you check for Linux partition and just ask the location if none is found? ------- Additional Comments From 11/03/99 22:11 ------- In case you'd like more details: the files on my install-/boot diskette are dated 16:27 18 oct 99. I boot from power down and enter the following sequence(s): text English us Local CDROM [welcome screen] Upgrade [Error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1: invalid argument] OK [Searching for RedHat Linux installations] [Exception occurred .. Traceback ... anaconda, line 225] ... [You may safely reboot your system]# Ctrl+Alt+Del <Enter> English Generic 104-key PC U.S. English 3 Button Mouse (serial) ttyS0 upgrade [Error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1: invalid argument] [Searching for RedHat Linux installations] Then the PC is "dead"; Ctrl+Alt+Del don't work. Have to push the Reset button. It is the same CDROM-drive from which I installed RH6.0. The only other possibility I could think of is that the CDROM is not okay. ------- Additional Comments From 11/11/99 09:56 ------- Latest from here: New install works on same machine with same CDROM and same boot disk
So, is this issue resolved or not? The NTFS problem is indeed fixed when using the updated boot images along with the updates disk itself. It sounds like you were able to get the system installed, and that is good! Please reopen this bug if you are still having problems.
Ought to be reopened because I still can't update all my machines. That I deleted the RH6.0 installation and made a 'clean' install of 6.1 *is* a 'solution', but a particular and peculiar one. The other machine - on which I don't want to delete 6.0 - is still waiting for the update, which doesn't do the trick yet. I only made the fresh install to help you guys by testing if the CDROM was okay. It seems to be. Uwe