OK, I've just got to say something and I hate the fact that I am able to say it. Something has changed with the install process of RH73 and it is cutting out a large percentage systems. I'm not sure of where to begin, but lets just say that I'm trying to upgrade my RH72, RH71, and RH62 systems to RH73.
I started off with the with an HP Pavilion 7364 to test out a non production system upgrade. This systems happens to have MS ME and RH72 installed and working. The system will not upgrade because it does not see any Linux partitions when I select the Next button when I have selected "Upgrade a currently installed system". I've tried everything that people have suggested to no avail. I can go out to the command prompt and create a dev that points to hda and then mount the dev, but the install will delete it and then not find it on it's own. Great just great. Outcome: No upgrade preformed. The next system I tried was a HP Pavilion 6350 (which has been updated to run more as a server i.e. better cooling, bigger heatsinks, max RAM, and large HD). This system had RH72 running. This system upgraded without a problem. Outcome: System upgraded. The next system was an HP OmniBook 5700ct laptop. The system was running RH72. The system would not boot into the install because it was halting during partition check because of a dma timeout (or actually no timeout). Help from this list and RH support could not give me a solution to this. After weeks of trying different options and looking trough source. Finally found a way to disable dma correctly to allow the install process to continue. Outcome: System upgraded. The next system was a HP Vecta 486/50 (which has been upgraded with an AMD cpu which gives 100MHz, Max RAM to 64MB, large HD, and a 1GHB Jaz) running RH72. System acts fine dns server. The system wont start the install program. I tried every command line option, but it stops at the same spot. After hitting enter at the welcome screen (or any other option) the system loads and gets to the point: running install... running /sbin/loader Install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 Which then goes to a line that says "you man safely reboot your system". Great signal 11... bad hardware frigging wonderful! Booting off a RH72 floppy with the RH 73 CD goes into the install (of course I didn't continue). Hmm... Outcome: No upgrade preformed. At this point I'm not feeling good about doing the rest of our systems. The amazing thing here is that this is not how the RH72 upgrade went. Some things have changed and are creating a group of systems that wont upgrade. IMHO this is not a good course. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
