Re: Upgrading to 9.2 on a NW machine with YDL2.0 installed


Subject: Re: Upgrading to 9.2 on a NW machine with YDL2.0 installed
From: Grald CELESTINE (scarladoue@mac.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 09:55:52 MDT


Le 22/08/01 12:27, « Gavin Hemphill » <hemphill@drea.dnd.ca> a écrit :

> This is just a quick message for those of you who are about to upgrade
> your machines from 9.1 to 9.2.1. When you do this (I think it has
> something to do with the upgrade to the disk drivers) you'll find that
> your Boot partition suddenly gets mounted on the desktop and you can no
> longer boot into Linux. After a number of hours of hair pulling, I
> found that it is possible to recover without too much trouble. You will
> have to have a valid kernel for your machine in /boot/vmlinux for this
> to work. Here's what I did (note. this was with the text based installer):
> 1) boot from the install CD and proceed through the install to the point
> that you can edit the partitions. (N.B. make sure you select the custom
> install when that question shows up).
> 2) delete the Boot partition (In my case 35MB), and add it back in.
> 3) proceed to the mount screen and mount the partitions (the defaults
> should be correct but you may want to check them).
> 4) skip over the steps (down arrow key) until you get to the one to
> install the bootloader, and then do that one
> 5) reboot and things should be happy.
>
> This will install the default yaboot.conf so you'll have to re-edit it
> and run ybin if you had modified it.
> G++
>
I didn't have that problem with my Ibook dual USB.
However, maybe it's because I used the yaboot prompt to boot on the cd and
then upgrade to 9.2.1



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