--- Ajay Sharma ssharma@revsharecorp.com wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ajay Sharma wrote:
My email server is running CentOS 3 and I can't
upgrade it to
CentOS 4 using the CD's. At first I thought it
was the old
Megaraid card (that's no longer supported), so I
replaced that with
a new card. I've tried ISO's from CentOS 4, 4.1
and now 4.2 which
I've tested and booted in other machines. Just
not this one.
if the cd-rom wont boot this machine, when it does
boot on another
machine - the most likely cause would be bad
cd-rom or cd-rom cant
read cd-media.
I guess that's possible, but wouldn't it crap out on the "Loading vmlinuz....." part? It freezes up right in the middle of kernel hardware detection phase.
you could try booting over the network using PXE
or just use the
kernel+initrd from the pxe images, add them to the
local grub loader,
boot into a network install.
It certainly something to try....
remember that there is no CentOS3 to CentOS4
upgrade path, you need
to boot with the 'upgradeany' option and force
CentOS4 onto the
machine.
Perhaps, as has already been suggested, a fresh
install might be
better ?
Whoops, I forgot to mention that in my email. I'm not upgrading the machine, I'm going to wipe it out and install a clean copy of CentOS4. I only broght up CentOS 3 to show that the machine isn't 'broken' and I'm able to install linux on there. It just doesn't like CentOS 4 for some reason.
Tony Wicks wrote:
If you are having too many problems upgrading and
don't want to start
from scratch, why not stay put on Centos3.x ?
Just to be clear, I am starting from scratch. When I boot from the CD it loads fine but then freezes right after the kernel says something about the AGP video card.
And I want to upgrade for the 2.6 kernel and I also want to put reiserfs on this server. The machine is getting a little old and I think this will help the performance for the next year or two before we retire it for good.
--Ajay
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I would try the swapping of cd-rom, i have had weird stuff like this happen in the past and soon as i did a swap out of the cd-rom that problem disappeared.
Steven
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."