On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:24:49PM -0600, Philip Washington wrote:
I am trying to upgrade 9.3 to 10.0. After numerous packages failed to load, I finally got to the point where grub was to upgrade. At this point I get an error that it cannot find the hard drive / partition it is looking for.
I'm just curious, how many drives do you have? I have 2 IDE disks and have been suffering from this problem upgrading 9.1-9.2 and 9.2->9.3. Surpisingly, 9.3->10.0 went smoothly without this nasty problem, so it might be not your case.
Is there some way that I can get to a command line and find out what is going on. Find out what hard drive it is actually seeing and where it should put grub?
You can switch to command line on virtual console 2 or 3 using Ctl-Alt-F2 or 3. Sorry, I don't remember exactly which console command line prompt is on. But I don't think it's gonna help you to move on from that point. Installer just gets stuck. What I did during previous upgrades to work around this problem, I had to physically disconnect second drive from IDE bus and then perform upgrade. After new system is installed I connect the second drive back. -Kastus