I believe in the release notes for 9 it says the upgrade looks for issue or version file to determine what to upgrade. Check the rh9 release notes on the redhat site. > > Hello, > > Last night I tried to upgrade our database server. It's a dual p3 box > with raid5 (on a metaraid controller). After I backed up everything I > popped in the redhat 9 install disc and proceeded to upgrade it. But it > got stuck right off the bad because it couldn't find the redhat 7.0 > installation. > > I wish I had the error in front of me but it was something like > "/dev/sda: can't load partition table" or "unrecognized partition > table", something to that effect. It loaded the megaraid module just > fine and was able to see the drive so I don't understand why the > partition table is screwed up? I booted back into redhat 7 and here's > what the partition table looks like in fdisk: > > Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3349 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 3 24097 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 4 105 819315 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 106 236 1052257+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 237 3349 25005172+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 237 628 3148739+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 629 3285 21342352 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 3286 3349 514079+ 82 Linux swap > > I've been migrating servers to redhat 9 for the past few months and I've > only got a handful to go so I'd really like to get this fixed. Plus, > the fact that rh7 is no longer supported is really bugging me. :) > > thanks, > ajay > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma > ssharma@xxxxxxx > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
