--- Ajay Sharma <ssharma at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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."