was it a txt mode upgrade ?
What happens if you try to upgrade again.
Another thing might be if your cd has scratches on it . that would really
srew up the install process
Cheerio
Robin
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to upgrade to rh 6.2 on my p200 / 32 mb sdram / sis 6215c
> box - and here's what I did ...
>
> partition initially -
>
> hda1 - 'doze primary 2.1G
>
> hda3 - doze secondary 1 G
>
> hda4 - swap - 64 mb
>
> hda5 - linux native - rest of the space (abt 1 G)
>
> 1. After defrag etc, booted using a bootdisk and selected upgrade
> from the CD menu
>
> 2. Selected some packages I wanted to upgrade
>
> 3. Hit start
>
> What happened is that midway thru the upgrade (when upgrading
> apmd) my CD drive hung due to some weird reason (can't be the
> CD - no scratches etc). After waiting nearly 1/2 hour I had to
> reboot.
>
> So, when I try to start linux from lilo it says
>
> loading linux....................
>
> and stops there.
>
> @$%$^%$^$^@
>
> Looks like I've done something stupid (one thing I can mention - not
> backing up my mail) - can someone help? There are a few files
> (and mails <g>) which I don't exactly want to lose.
>
> The partition is intact, so if worst comes to worst I can use
> something to access hda5 from my doze partition and get my mails
> and files ... but I'd still (naturally) prefer getting linux up and
> running again.
>
> Help please :)
>
> -suresh
>
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