On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:57:42PM +0530, Simon wrote:
>
> I have (or rather, had) a PCQ RH-6.2 installation on my
> PIII-866/20gb/810e system. Recently I got hold of a PCQ
> RH-7.1 CD from my friend and while trying to install
> 7.1 the following things are happening. ( Of course
> I could not install/upgrade )
>
> While trying to install in any mode other than 'expert'
> or 'expert nofb', the system hangs with several error
> messages while running 'anaconda'.
> <Quote>
Don't know much of RH ... the error pattern seems like
the kind of thing thrown by python ...
>
> In the 'expert ' mode the x server starts successfully
> and then exits
>
Seems like a write error during load up. Should not fail
otherwise.
>
> In the 'expert nofb' mode I can go upto the 'Partition-
> ing /dev/hda3' stage. Then the program exits with the
> error message that " A serious error has occured while
> formatting /dev/hda3. The installation cannot continue.
> Press OK for rebooting".
>
> I went upto the partition stage as in step 3 and after
> that when I rebooted, I had lost my original PCQ 6.2.
> I cannot boot off the rescue disk also.
This seems to be a real h/w problem. There may be corr-
uption of boot record of /dev/hda3, or errors in the
partition/ media itself.
> I have a 3GB partition for / and a 256 MB swap parti-
> tion. The / partition is within the voodoo figure of
> 1024 cylinders. The CD is not corrupted because my
> friend had installed off it and I could install off
> it on my office computer after the failure on mine.
>
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You have no go except to re-install RH 7.1. However, it
is important that you check out your /dev/hda3 first.
o Boot from a rescue disk or a stand-alone single disk
distro like tomsrtbt or alfalinux (both are linked on
freshmeat)
o Do a fdisk /dev/hda. Delete the partition and re-make
the partition. If it is a primary, then no probs. If
it is extended, then you are likely to lose all the
logical partitions under it ... do NOT re-create the
partition if you have logical partitions under it.
o Clearly mark the partition type as Type 83.
o mke2fs /dev/hda3 ... if there are physical errors on
the disk, it will show. Can run a e2fsck on /dev/hda3
for confirmation after that.
o If this goes okay, you should have no probs with the
installation of RH-7.1 or any other Linux distro. If
there are physical disk errors, you would have to use
another partition ... and try and replace the disk as
soon as it is convenient !
HTH
Bish
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