RH 8.0 upgrade to Fedora Core 2 - crashes

[Clint Harshaw]

Bryan C. Andregg wrote:
> I am attempting to upgrade a Red Hat 8.0 system to Fedora Core 2 using 
> the install CD images from the website. The current system is a stock 
> install with most updates (until 8.0 was EOL'd) and very little or no 
> custom software or third party software installed.
> 
> During the upgrade everything works until the installer displays 
> "Preparing RPM Transaction" at which point the installer terminates and 
> the system shuts down. The upgrade log has plenty of detail about 
> upgrading dependancies followed by packages to be upgraded and ends with:
> 
> The following packages were available in this version but NOT upgraded:
> Upgrading comps-8.0-0.20020910.
> 
> The only other errors in the upgrade log all look like:
> 
> OMF file [/usr/share/omf/glade/turbo-start-C.omf] does not validate 
> against Scro
> llKeeper-OMF DTD: /usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd
> 
> Does anyone know why the installer is crashing and/or how to prevent 
> that from happening?
> 
> Cheers,


Check to see if your BIOS is updated! This caused my computer with 
A7V8X-X mobo to prevent installation of anything after RH8. RH8 would go 
on there, but nothing later would. After I updated the BIOS, my 
installation problems evaporated.

Hope this helps,
Clint