upgrade from FC1 to FC3

nantes ludovic.cavalier at ac-nantes.fr
Thu Jan 13 06:11:35 UTC 2005


I tried to upgrade from FC1 to FC3.

I had 3 problems, FC3 ;) Here is a short summary ....

1 - CD2 hangs up intallation telling that the media or 
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2.10 package is corrupted.

I found out something having a look at error messages.
 " IOError 28 occured copying openoffice.org.i18n-A.A.2.10.i386.rpm" no free 
space
It looks like installation process can not copy openoffice into 
/mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/ because it is 100% full.

What I did to bypass openoffice upgrade :
 - boot on CD 1 using "linux rescue"
 - rpm -e openoffice* so that upgrade does not bother about openoffice
 - upgrade one more

2 - First reboot : grub was still pointing to 2.4 kernel ... which was not 
on disk anymore :  grub.conf was not upgraded

What I did to upgrade grub.conf manually :
 - boot on CD 1 using "linux rescue"
- edit /boot/grub/grub.conf changing old kernel to new

title Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9-1.667)       root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/Volume00/LogVol00 rhgb
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
 - reboot

3 - Second reboot I had this error message :


MOUNT: ERROR 6 MOUNTING EXT3
MOUNT: ERROR 2 MOUNTING NONE
SWITCHROOT: MOUNT FAILED:22
UNMOUNT /INITRD/DEV FAILED: 2
KERNEL PANIC - NOT SYNCING: ATTEMPTED TO KILL INIT!

What I did , I needed to create a new initrd file :

 - boot on CD 1 using "linux rescue"

 - To create new initrd :

   chroot /mnt/sysimage
   remove old /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
   mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img 2.6.9-1.667

A new initrd file is created and the system boot successfully.


Hope it can help ...
Thanks for all reply to my fisrt message ... 




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