On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:45:13 -0500, Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm upgrading my system from RedHat 9 to Fedora Core 3. My machine > has been quite stable for 2 years or more. It's got two Athlon MP > 1800+ processors, and all partitions are reiserfs. > > After upgrading, I was getting tons of DMA errors, especially on the > drive that is on the second IDE controller (/dev/hdc1). After half > and hour or so, it totally corrupted my mp3 collection, which of > course I didn't have backed up (although 20Gb of it is on my iPod). > Even after unmounting it, I got some errors on my CDROM (/dev/hdd). > The next time I tried rebooting, it started complaining about errors > and dropping me into single user mode, even though fsck showed no > errors. > > At this point I gave up, and I'm currently restoring from backups > (which is why I can't give you the exact text of the messages.) > > Let me know when it's safe to install FC3, ok? > The safe way is install it in fresh not upgrade... :(
