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Douglas S. Oliver wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Hmm, I must have been really confused by this whole upgrade  business...
In fact, my first disk is hda, which has 3 partitions, hda1 and hda2
both NTFS on which NT is installed and an FAT partition called hda3. My
second disk is indeed hdc. I just checked with fdisk, and I do not have
a hdb. Now that you mentioned this, I remember that after installing
RH5.2 a year ago, I was surprised that it had installed itself on hdc...

Cheers - Eric

> 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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