At this time, I have created several boot disks. The first disk was created during the install, or rather, ugrade, from the RH CD. After that, I used linux rescue from the RH CD and did mkbootdisk and created disks identical to the first disk. All of them hung as I described in my original email. In each case, the disk created was in vfat. All of the disks which I used to boot 6.0 (and continue to use on another machine) were formatted to ext2. Remember, I have 2 separate hds and am trying to boot to hdb. Following the instruction and notes in the 7.2 CD, I installed Grub on hdb rather than hda. Your answers question why I waited so long to upgrade. The answer is that I believe that one should thoroughly master a basic tool before changing tools. A computer is a tool and an OS is is merely one flavor. In my last profession, I was a master carpenter, cabinet maker and general contractor - 20 years. I have also been a professional photographer , graphic artist, French and English teacher - not all at the same time. I just bought a new car - a 1988 Subaru but have kept my 1973 Jimmy. My vehicle before that was a 1972 Ford F250 which I drove for 400,000 miles. Oh, I forgot my other car which is a 1960 Triumph TR3. Anyway, I digress
I appreciate all of the advice which you have given me. Thanks again, Doug Charles Galpin wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:06, doug piper wrote: > > Thanks to all of you! I think that a new install is the right thing to do although >I > > don't believe that there is anything wrong with the upgrade except that I can't >boot > > into it. > > I do still have one question. Where do I put GRUB? I followed instructions and put >it > > into MBR of hdb as per RedHat instructions should I have put it into MBR of hda > > instead? I believe this is the essence of my problem. > > Today, I need to get some work done and will not have time to deal with this until > > tomorrow. I'll let you know how it comes out > > Doug, I haven't been following this thread carefully, but this sounds > like your problem. > > If you made a boot floppy, boot off of it and fix your grub settings and > run grb-install. > > If you didn't make a boot floppy (shame on you :) then try this - boot > off the 7.2 install CD. Choose upgrade. Deselect all packages. MAKE A > BOOT FLOPPY. > > What *should* happen is it will install little to nothing, and then > create you aboot disk - possibly fixing your boot issue ate the same > time (in which case you won't need the boot disk). > > hth > charles > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
