On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:49, David Smith wrote: > Just thought I would try and use the upgrade path to move my Sony SR21K > to Redhat 9 (current install is 8) and it seems to have issues. > > Using the graphical install route I don't get as far as the X part of > the installation as it seems to freeze after loading the 1394 driver, > I'm then left on the blue screen with nothing happening on the laptop or > the cd... and no further messages forthcoming. > > I'm not even getting to the point where I can choose to upgrade > > Any thoughts / clues / help ? If you boot with 'linux nofirewire', the firewire modules won't get loaded. Once you manage to install, you should see if loading the firewire module hangs things and if so, file a bug against the kernel Cheers, Jeremy
