BOB GOODWIN wrote:
> I purchased a set of four disks mail order and have attempted to do the
> upgrade
> from RH9 to Fedora Core 2 without much success this afternoon. I went
> through
> this four times so far with the same result. The install runs smoothly
> and when
> I'm done it tells me to remove the media and reboot.
>
> That part works but the Grub menu only shows the old RH-9 kernel 2.4
> option. In fact I haven't been able to find the 2.6 kernel installed on
> my hard drive. It
> appears that I'm still running RH-9 to write this message. [# uname -a
> Linux box1 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux]
Most odd.
Can you try running gcc --version, ls --version, rpm --version, and
sundry other commands with --version, and compare them with the
versions on the FC2 media?
>
> I thought well I'll find the RPM on Disk One and install the new kernel
> from there,
> can't do that either since now it tells me /dev/cdrom "is not a block
> device,"
> whatever that means, I've seen that before but don't know what to do to
> fix it? The
> CDROM has always worked until I ran this install.
Can you do an ls -l /dev/cdrom ?
Is it a CD writer? If so, I bet the RH9 kernel is set up to use the
IDE-SCSI hack so it could write under kernel 2.4. That would mean it
was called something like /dev/scd0. In FC2, under 2.6, that isn't
needed, and it would be called /dev/hdc (or whatever): that's if it's
the primary slave. But if the IDE-SCSI hack is in place, then /dev/hdc
won't work.
/dev/cdrom is supposed to be a symlink to whichever device the CD is
using. I bet the FC2 install changed it from /dev/scd0 to /dev/hdc.
Can you do a cat /proc/cmdline? If there's a hdc=ise-scsi, then the
IDE-SCSI hack should be in place.
Alternatively, I suppose you just might not be getting any modules
loaded. Can you do a lsmod?
And while you're at it, can you post /boot/grub/grub.conf?
I'm sure there's more, but that'll do for starters.
James.
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