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
