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