On Sunday 18 January 2004 10:59 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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Yesterday, I tried to update my SuSE 8.2 machine to SuSE 9.0. It was a complete disaster. The machine is a dual boot, Win2K on hda and Linux on hdb (well, /usr is also on hda).
I first tried to do an Update Existing System. I couldn't get it to boot. This didn't bother me, as I've read of others with this problem.
Then I tried doing an initial install without reformating /home. No good. I could get it to boot, but nothing would run. OK, I thought, version conflicts in configuration.
I then did another initial install, this time reformatting all Linux partitions. The install procedure reached the point of setting up the boot configuration, and went into a loop displaying "Error in writing boot configuration" ... I'd answer OK, then this message would come up again ad infinitem. No way to continue the install.
I can't speak on the other problems, but I might have an idea of the problem here if, that is, /boot isn't formatted as ext2. I used to have /boot formatted as reiserfs, but on 2 of my 3 machines, grub failed to install during the boot configuration because it couldn't seem to read any of the files in /boot. Once I reformatted /boot as ext2 (I suppose ext3 would also work), the problems went away. HTH, Steve
At this point, I reinstalled SuSE 8.2. I doubt that I'm EVER going to try updating to 9.0 again, but I'd like some idea what might have happened so that I might be able to fix it at 9.1 or whatever. Does anyone have any ideas?