On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 12:19, John Rumball wrote:
> That line must have been commented out by anaconda.
My guess as well. Had wondered about why, but it works that way so
never dug in to find out.
> I notice that it
> is also commented out on my FC1 box at home (which also has hda1, hda2,
> hda3 and was recently upgraded from RH8) and on the old drive I am
> replacing in this box.
>
> I should also mention that I tried booting off my old drive and it
> worked just fine, although it loaded RH8 and not FC1. I guess this
> confirms that my previously attempted yum upgrade never completed
> properly!
Sounds like it. From your original message it appears the actual
install of the new RPMS never started. Haven't used Ghost for this kind
of cloning but it seems that something messed up. Presumably you had to
configure the old drive as master or single (/dev/hda) to get the system
to boot back to RH8. If the new drive is configured as slave, can still
boot to the old one?
If so, and if you still want to try an upgrade to preserve old settings
etc., I'd try "cloning" the running system on the old drive under Linux
to the new one configured as a slave drive (/dev/hdb).
Something along these lines has worked for me:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 # Kill old MBR
fdisk /dev/hdb # create partitions as desired
...
Then
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2
mkswap /dev/hda3
mkdir /alt
mount /dev/hda2 /alt
mkdir /alt/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /alt/boot
cp -aux /boot /alt
cp -aux / /alt
Make a grub boot floppy so you can boot either instance in a pinch.
This script (I call it mkgrubmenu and it lives in /root/bin) may help
(did for Paolo):
-------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
# mkgrubmenu
#
# Written by Phil Schaffner <p.r.schaffner@xxxxxxxx>
# based on mkbootdisk by Erik Troan <ewt@xxxxxxxxxx>
pause=yes
format=yes
device=/dev/fd0
unset verbose
GRUBDIR=/boot/grub
MOUNTDIR=/tmp/mkgrubmenu
PATH=/sbin:$PATH
export PATH
VERSION=0.1
usage () {
cat >&2 <<EOF
usage: `basename $0` [--version] [--noprompt] [--noformat]
[--device <devicefile>] [--grubdir <dir>] [--verbose -v]
(ex: `basename $0` --device /dev/fd1)
EOF
exit $1
}
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case $1 in
--device)
shift
device=$1
;;
--grubdir)
shift
GRUBDIR=$1
;;
--help)
usage 0
;;
--noprompt)
unset pause
;;
--noformat)
unset format
;;
-v)
verbose=true
;;
--verbose)
verbose=true
;;
--version)
echo "mkgrubdisk: version $VERSION"
exit 0
;;
*)
usage
;;
esac
shift
done
[ -d $GRUBDIR ] || {
echo "$GRUBDIR is not a directory!" >&2
exit 1
}
if [ -e "$device" ]; then {
[ -n "$pause" ] && {
echo -n "Insert a"
[ -n "$format" ] || echo -n " vfat formatted"
echo " disk in $device."
echo "Any information on the disk will be lost."
echo -n "Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: "
read aline
}
[ -n "$format" ] && {
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "Formatting $device... "
fdformat $device || exit 0
mkfs.msdos $device > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || exit 0
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done."
}
rm -rf $MOUNTDIR
mkdir $MOUNTDIR || {
echo "Failed to create $MOUNTDIR" >&2
exit 1
}
[ -d $MOUNTDIR ] || {
echo "$MOUNTDIR is not a directory!" >&2
exit 1
}
mount -wt vfat $device $MOUNTDIR || {
rmdir $MOUNTDIR
exit 1
}
mkdir $MOUNTDIR/grub
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo -n "Copying $GRUBDIR files... "
cd $GRUBDIR
cp -a stage1 stage2 grub.conf device.map $MOUNTDIR/grub
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done."
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo -n "Setting up GRUB... "
grub --device-map=$GRUBDIR/device.map --batch <<EOF
root (fd0)
setup (fd0)
quit
EOF
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done."
umount $MOUNTDIR
rmdir $MOUNTDIR
[ -n "$verbose" ] && echo "done setting up GRUB."
echo "edit (fd0)/grub/grub.conf to customize."
}
else
echo "$device does not exist"
fi
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Configure the new drive as single (recommended to avoid possible MBR
confusion) or master, with the old one either removed or as slave. Boot
using the floppy, and (assuming success) log on as root and do the
following:
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
You SHOULD, with any luck, then be able to reboot from the new disk and
continue with the upgrade.
Check out
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~vschmidt/notes/redhat2fedora/
for good hints on how to upgrade with yum.
Should also be possible to boot either instance of Linux with both disks
installed if you appropriately edit /boot/grub/grub.conf, and
/alt/etc/fstab and /alt/etc/mtab on the /dev/hdb2 partition, but won't
go into all that detail here.
Good luck!
Phil
