-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 22 May 2006, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Monday 22 May 2006 20:22, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Thanks for any ideas.
First, what are you losing if you just wipe the partitions and install 10.1 'from scratch'?
112 GB of unbacked up data, source code for projects, all company records... Stuff I can not live without. I should have made a backup but I was in a hurry and now I am in trouble for not following my own rules about backup. If I had the funds I would go an buy a large HD and problem would be solved. All I have available is a 15 GB laptop HD for testing on my laptop. The system I need to repair is my Desktop PC. At this point I am unable to install Backup Edge to backup to DVD. THis machine has both IDE and SCSI disks. On very large IDE Drive with SUSE, One drive with UnixWare and Windows 2000, cdrom burner and dvd burner. 2 2 GB SCSI HD's with UnixWare 7.1.4, SCSI CD rom, SCSI CD rom burner. The machine is a P III 667 MHz with 128 MB Memory. So I have to have the 1 GB swap to do anything with it and 10.1.
From your description, the upgrade was begun and soon interrupted. It is no longer 10.0 *or* 10.1 but something in between... with the added complexity of manual rescue attempts and manipulated content. I'm not sure the 10.1 installer would be sophisticated enough to identify and sort all these changes out.
I have no idea how long it ran. I had left it to complete un-attended. I have been able to do a test on a smaller hd with 10.0 to a 10.1 upgrade that I halted. It did not have the problem with the boot finding the partitions and swap, but was in between. I powered off at a know point. I was able to boot the mini iso and force a reinstall using update all programs if newer. It did take 3 hours to resolve all the conflicts, because of the stupid updater in 10.1 only doing one at a time. But I was able to get it to 10.1. So I am sure if I can get the system to boot without the waiting for ... to come up I can complete the install. I wish I had another drive to copy all the information off to it, then I would do a new install. If I knew how to create this situation with the boot not finding the /dev/hda5 swap and /dev/hda6 root, I think I could fix it. Not knowing how to get to this state I do not know how to undo it.
However, if you're absolutely determined to pursue the upgrade route, given the noted anomalies, above, I'd say your best bet would be to run the 10.0 'system repair', first... let it revert the installation back to 10.0 and attempt the upgrade again.
Sadly I had already tried it. With either the DL DVD from 10.0 or CD 1 I am unable to boot from them. The system goes imediately to the HD boot menu. The 10.1 CD and DVD both boot to their menues, Every option I have tried does not seem to work with the 10.0 CD/DVD. I also thought maybe able to use y2pmsh to do the upgrade as mentioned on the opensuse-factory list. The /boot/grub/menu.lst has been changed to 10.1 instead of 10.0. So the system had to get to some point that it was changed or it may have been changed from the 10.1 install/repair installed system. Any other ideas? Anyone? Thanks, - -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFEcpkyVtBjDid73eYRAsDPAJ4r1A56MciM3xUk8bAOf2WcApCP8gCeJMFq gchx3T0By1BSKY8ez58Q/JY= =8BT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----