> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-devel-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Emberson > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:50 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases; fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE > > SUCCESS (see below) > > > Richard Emberson wrote: > > I have an older machine that can not boot from cdrom. Also, I had > > some user data in one of the accounts. > > > > So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted > > disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted: > > > > mount /dev/cdrom > > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install > > cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img > > umount /mnt/cdrom > > and add entry like: > > title Fedora Core 2 Installation > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /FC2-install > > initrd /FC2-install.img > > to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot) > > > > Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and > > after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that > > I should click the reboot button ... which I did. > > > > Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the > > grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so > > and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install. > > > > hmmm..... > > > > I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1 > > and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was > > successful and that I should click on the reboot button. > > > > Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1 > > and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and > > compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success. > > > > I tried one more time with the same result. > > > > So how do I break out of this? I really dont care about either > > php or compat-db, I'd like to somehow bypass installing them and > > get on with the boot. Are there parameters one can give at the grub > > command line to force a kernel load? > > > > Help! Thanks. > > > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > Thanks to the many replies. > > What I ended up doing .... > > My original system had two scsi disks: disk1 with /boot and / > and the other, disk2, with /home and /usr/local and I did not want to > lose /home and /usr/local - which is why I wanted to upgrade, > not install. > > So I bought a new scsi (I do plan to build a new machine at home > some time this Summer, so its not as extreme as one might think) > using it to replace disk2 > and did a redhat 9.0 on my old machine. > I then mounted FC2 disc1 and copied vmlinux and initrd as described > above. I then via grub booted using the FC2 code and did a full > install. It worked. Now I can just replace the new disk2 with the > old and the upgrade is complete. > > IMPORTANT: the first time I did this - yes I did this twice - I > for some unknown reason had disk1 contain /boot and /usr while > the new disk2 had / - the redhat 9 install succeeded this succeeded but > not the subsequent FC2 install!! - so the second time I had disk1 > contain /boot and / while the new disk2 had /home and /usr/local and > for this combination FC2 install (after installing redhat 9 a > second time) worked. > > Thanks again. > > > Richard > > maybe I'm missing something here, but I believe that you can download the iso's to your hard drive and mount them and install. Maybe I'm wrong but that would seem to have been a lot simpler. If this worked for you though great.
