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Subject:    Re: [suse-autoinstall] Upgrade 9.0 -> 9.1 went totally wrong
From:       Wolfgang.Bauer () schoellerbank ! at
Date:       2004-05-07 7:43:03
Message-ID: OFEDF3DB6B.D9680905-ONC1256E8D.002A1593-C1256E8D.002A1B1E () arz ! co ! at
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Hi Roy,

no, my specs are:
Athlon XP 1600, 768 MB RAM, 80 GB IDE (ATA-100), Geforce 440 MX, SB liv=
e,
2x ethernet, 1 firewire-card

The funny thing was, that I was always told that the upgrade-program co=
uld
not mount my root-partition but when I chose "reset options" (by not
changing any options before) it recognised the root-partition...

I guess, there could be a bug somewhere in the upgrade-program... I wou=
ld
love to track this problem down, but I fear that all logs were deleted.=


Yours, Gery
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Schoellerbank AG, Sterneckstrasse 5, 5024 Salzburg, Austria/Europe
Tel.:   ++43-662-8684-364, Fax.:   ++43-662-8684-44364
Email: mailto:wolfgang.bauer@schoellerbank.at, WWW:
http://www.schoellerbank.at

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Gery,

Is your root-partition on an SATA drive?  If so, maybe the upgrade
feature isn't accomodating the device file change between the 2.4 and
2.6 kernels.


Roy


Wolfgang.Bauer@schoellerbank.at wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I tried to install SuSE 9.1 yesterday by trying to Upgrade my
> 9.0-installation. The nightmare was as follows:
>
> The first problem I encountered was that yast was not able to mount m=
y
> root-partition (reiserfs) although my 9.0-installation worked properl=
y...
>
> After a few tries, I used the "Auto-Repair Installed System"-feature =
(if
> you still use 9.0 - DONT USE THIS FEATURE!!!). First it worked very
nicely
> until it got to the point where it checked the installation. The
> repair-function noticed that the 9.1-installation was faulty (right, =
as
it
> was a 9.0-installation) and upgraded some packages. After a reboot th=
e
> system did not come up (could not find kernel). Well, yast-installati=
on
> again - could not mount root-filesystem. Damn.
>
> I tried many things but when I used "Reset Options" from the menu on =
the
> bottom YAST COULD MOUNT MY PARTITION - there were no other settings b=
ut
(by
> magic) now it worked (could this be a bug?!). But as the repair-syste=
m
> changed my old 9.0-installation "There was an error upgrading your
system".
>
> After I copied all my /home-data to my windowspartition via text-cons=
ole
> and freshly installed 9.1, I had a running linux-system again. But I
really
> have to say: poor upgrade-system. It used to work better with older
> Suse-distributions...
>
> Btw. I'm not a Linux novice (I use Linux since 1994) but it seems tha=
t
you
> must not rely on "automatic upgrade functionalities"...
>
> Sad, sad.
>
> Gery
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Gernot Bauer, Leiter Internet
> Schoellerbank AG, Sterneckstrasse 5, 5024 Salzburg, Austria/Europe
> Tel.:   ++43-662-8684-364, Fax.:   ++43-662-8684-44364
> Email: mailto:wolfgang.bauer@schoellerbank.at, WWW:
> http://www.schoellerbank.at
>
> Diese Nachricht dient ausschlie=DFlich zu Informationszwecken und ist=
 nur
f=FCr
> den Gebrauch des Empf=E4ngers bestimmt.
> This message is only for informational purposes and is intended solel=
y
for
> the use of the addressee.
>
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