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Something looks very wrong here.  Your physical drives, not
partitions, use the hda, hdb, hdc designations.  Partitions would be
hda1 hda5, hdb1 hdb5, etc.  Unless hda or hdb is not a hard drive, hdc
could not be a hard drive.  That would make three hard drives.  -- d

Eric Maes <fr013269@worldonline.be> writes:

> 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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