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Trouble upgrading to RH 6.1

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From: Eric Maes
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:00
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Hi,

I'm having some trouble upgrading my current RH5.2 box to RH6.1.
The environment:

	PC with two hard disks, the first disk has two partitions, on the first
(hda to Linux) is installed NT, the
	second partition is an FAT partition (hdb to Linux) which I used as a
file interchange mechanism.
	The second disk (hdc) holds my current Linux RH5.2 installation.
	Booting is done with LILO.
I have the new boot and update disks from RH.

Upon booting from the boot disk, I enter: linux updates.
First question: in the instructions on the web site, it is said that the
'updates' disk will be asked for and that then the installation will
continue as normal. I am not asked for this 'updates' disk and after
booting, the loader loads the GUI stuff from CDROM (I have also tried it
with the text mode installation with the same results).
The procedure then identifies my keyboard and mouse and then I have the
option to do a full install or an upgrade.
After choosing 'upgrade", I get the following:

	Error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1: Invalid argument

When I hit the OK button, my system freezes with a dialog box saying:
'Searching for Red  Hat Linux installations'.

Looking at the other screens I see the following:
Dialog screen: 
	File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py" line 1130 in
upgradeFindRoot
	isys umount('/mnt/sysimage')
	File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/isys.py" line 8 in umount
	return _isys.umount(what)
	System Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Systemlog screen:
	Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1)

I suppose that the upgrade procedure is confused by the fact that my
current installation sits on the second disk?

Are there any parameters that I can pass to the boot command to solve
this?

TIA - Eric
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From: Eric Maes <fr013269@worldonline.be>
Subject: Trouble upgrading to RH 6.1
Date: 1999/12/11
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