Major Problems Moving from 9.0 to 9.1
Well, I've been trying to move toward 9.3 in a step by step fashion, starting from 8.1. I had problems with 8.2 so I skipped by it and went to 9.0. Everything was fine there, so I proceeded to migrate to 9.1. That didn't go too well, to say the least. I have two major problems right now (that I know of). 1) Somehow, my boot loader got moved down too far into the partition and my hardware can't branch to it, so I can't boot from the hardware. I can't understand how the hell this could happen since I only have 2 partitions, a 3 gig swap and then my regular partition. Is there some way that you can move the boot partition up to (say) the top of the regular partition? 2) I cannot get my network to work. I have the same settings I have always used. Routing Default Gateway -> 192.168.1.1 Enable IP Forwarding -> Checked DNS and Host Name Host Name -> linux Domain Name -> local Name Server -> 192.168.1.1 Domain Search -> local I have no idea what to do from here. I don't want to go to 9.2 until I can download the 9.1 patches and I can't do that until I can get to the web. Any help greatly appreciated. Greg Wallace
On Friday 02 September 2005 21:54, Greg Wallace wrote:
Well, I've been trying to move toward 9.3 in a step by step fashion, starting from 8.1. <snip>
Hi Greg, Why are you doing this in stages? I have a dedicated /home partition, so when I go from one version to the next, I just move ("mv") my user directory, /home/carl, to /home/.carl (hidden) and do a clean install. The installation creates a new, "clean" user directory for me. Then I symlink across to the important stuff, like my mail, so I'm up and running in the new desktop very quickly. I then use all the tools installed with the new system to migrate/rebuild/recreate the stuff that takes a little time and isn't as straightforward. I highly recommend this approach over layering later versions on top of earlier versions. In most cases, when you're installing the later version, it does wholesale replacements anyway. As far as the specific problems you're having, AFAIK, the boot loader module is intelligent enough to create a workable solution. If it can't, it'll tell you what is wrong. Select the option to re-read the partitioning scheme and "start from scratch." Then, "force" it to save everything, not just the "changed files" at the same time it installs the boot loader. That's probably the fastest fix for the boot problem. If that system isn't being used as a gateway or firewall or server supporting other clients, you should leave IP forwarding off. Also, put some real name servers and a real domain in those fields. In my case, the name servers provided by our ISP (Verizon) are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2. The search domain is dsl.verizon.net ... that should get you back on-line. regards, - Carl a) You shouldn't have a need for more than a 1GB swap partition
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2005-09-02 at 17:54 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
Well, I've been trying to move toward 9.3 in a step by step fashion, starting from 8.1. I had problems with 8.2 so I skipped by it and went to 9.0. Everything was fine there, so I proceeded to migrate to 9.1.
What a job!
1) Somehow, my boot loader got moved down too far into the partition and my hardware can't branch to it, so I can't boot from the hardware. I can't understand how the hell this could happen since I only have 2 partitions, a 3 gig swap and then my regular partition. Is there some way that you can move the boot partition up to (say) the top of the regular partition?
You mean move the boot directory up to the top of the regular partition. No, there isn't. You can, however, create a small (20-30 Mb) ext2 partition dedicated to /boot somewhere at the start of the HD - which as it is already formatted, means trouble. Perhaps you can get that space out of the swap partition. ....
I have no idea what to do from here. I don't want to go to 9.2 until I can download the 9.1 patches and I can't do that until I can get to the web.
I'd probably update to 9.3 at this point, you will have to redo many things anyway. But backup first, of course. (I updated from 9.1 to 9.3 - and previously from 8.2, and 8.1 before that.) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDHDF3tTMYHG2NR9URAkq4AJoCvILt//DlXnmAS04Ws/WD4ym7dQCfTXZX HHeLij34hBuqg9iRGkMX4sA= =5XuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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