Hi Roy, no, my specs are: Athlon XP 1600, 768 MB RAM, 80 GB IDE (ATA-100), Geforce 440 MX, SB live, 2x ethernet, 1 firewire-card The funny thing was, that I was always told that the upgrade-program could not mount my root-partition but when I chose "reset options" (by not changing any options before) it recognised the root-partition... I guess, there could be a bug somewhere in the upgrade-program... I would love to track this problem down, but I fear that all logs were deleted. Yours, Gery ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Gernot Bauer, Leiter Internet Schoellerbank AG, Sterneckstrasse 5, 5024 Salzburg, Austria/Europe Tel.: ++43-662-8684-364, Fax.: ++43-662-8684-44364 Email: mailto:wolfgang.bauer@schoellerbank.at, WWW: http://www.schoellerbank.at Diese Nachricht dient ausschließlich zu Informationszwecken und ist nur für den Gebrauch des Empfängers bestimmt. This message is only for informational purposes and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. Roy Butler <roy.butler@jpl. nasa.gov> An suse-autoinstall@suse.com 06.05.2004 22:27 Kopie Thema Re: [suse-autoinstall] Upgrade 9.0 -> 9.1 went totally wrong Gery, Is your root-partition on an SATA drive? If so, maybe the upgrade feature isn't accomodating the device file change between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. Roy Wolfgang.Bauer@schoellerbank.at wrote:

Hello everybody,

I tried to install SuSE 9.1 yesterday by trying to Upgrade my 9.0-installation. The nightmare was as follows:

The first problem I encountered was that yast was not able to mount my root-partition (reiserfs) although my 9.0-installation worked properly...

After a few tries, I used the "Auto-Repair Installed System"-feature (if you still use 9.0 - DONT USE THIS FEATURE!!!). First it worked very

nicely

until it got to the point where it checked the installation. The repair-function noticed that the 9.1-installation was faulty (right, as it was a 9.0-installation) and upgraded some packages. After a reboot the system did not come up (could not find kernel). Well, yast-installation again - could not mount root-filesystem. Damn.

I tried many things but when I used "Reset Options" from the menu on the bottom YAST COULD MOUNT MY PARTITION - there were no other settings but (by magic) now it worked (could this be a bug?!). But as the repair-system changed my old 9.0-installation "There was an error upgrading your system".

After I copied all my /home-data to my windowspartition via text-console and freshly installed 9.1, I had a running linux-system again. But I really have to say: poor upgrade-system. It used to work better with older Suse-distributions...

Btw. I'm not a Linux novice (I use Linux since 1994) but it seems that you must not rely on "automatic upgrade functionalities"...

Sad, sad.

Gery ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Gernot Bauer, Leiter Internet Schoellerbank AG, Sterneckstrasse 5, 5024 Salzburg, Austria/Europe Tel.: ++43-662-8684-364, Fax.: ++43-662-8684-44364 Email: mailto:wolfgang.bauer@schoellerbank.at, WWW: http://www.schoellerbank.at

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