Due to my prioe experiences (mostly unsuccessful) doing upgrades, now I have a separate /home partition, and I preffer doing fresh installs. Two days ago I installed RH7.2 and now I have an ext3 partitions and keep /home as ext2 (just in case...).
-Manuel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey everyone..... > > I have a machine at home that is currently running RH 7.0 and win 98 in a dual > boot setup. It has 2 hard drives. hda is partitioned at 10GB fat for windows, > and 5GB ext2 for RH. hdb is 3gb all ext2. They are both on IDE1 on my onboard > ide controller. IDE2 is dedicated to the CD-rom drive > > I have tried to install RH 7.2, but it cannot get past the hda scan at startup. > one of the startup msgs recommends setting pci=biosirq, which I do at LILO. > This gets it past the initial scan with several messages that go scrolling > past, referring, I believe, to CRC check errors. However, anaconda hangs > trying to detect the drive later in the setup. (for the record, Mandrake 8.1 > has the exact same problem, including setting the flag). > > It was recommended that I turn off UDMA access to the drives, but that option > is not available in my BIOS. The hardware check at startup does show that both > drives are using UDMA2. My BIOS (amibios) does allow me to set PIO level, > which is autosetting at 4 for both hdd's, and 3 for the cdrom. > > My question (finally) is: What is different that would cause 7.0 to function > perfectly, but lock up 7.2 during initial bootup of the install? Is there a > kernel flag (or several) that I can set to give it better instructions as to > what my hardware is? Remember, 7.0 continues to work without any CRC errors or > anything else at startup. > > Thanks in advance for any replies! > > --Joe Jansen > > (oh, btw, hda is an IBM hard drive) Motherboard is a no-name generic with a > cyrix MX 333 processor, 64MB RAM. > > Thanks! --Joe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
