[CentOS] install problem - SOLVED
Chuck Campbell
campbell at accelinc.com
Mon Apr 13 15:56:26 UTC 2015
On 4/9/2015 6:12 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> On 4/9/2015 4:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 4/9/2015 2:44 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote:
>>> I don't think this made it to the list yesterday. At least I never
>>> saw it show up.
>> it showed up here. dunno what to suggest.
>>
>> maybe install 5.11 on a VM somewhere with the same package set and
>> architecture (on the blown system, /var/log/rpmpkgs, then copy
>> everything in /bin ? boot the target system with a rescue OS, mount
>> your OS root as /mnt or something, and copy that backup to /mnt/bin ?
>>
>>
>> this won't be perfect unless you know exactly what RPMs were installed
>> on the blown system, but its probably better than nothing.
>>
>> I dunno. I think I'd install a new box with 6 or 7, and migrate over
>> whatever app stuff you need.
>>
>>
> I'll try running the install again. I did this exact same thing a year
> ago, and all worked fine. The only difference was that I didn't
> partition the disk this time, and I preserved one partition's data. I'll
> back it up and just go the whole route with a format and partition in
> the installer and see if it works.
>
> It is strange that it finds the /boot partition to get the gtub.conf,
> but can't see the initrd and vmlinuz files there...
>
> -chuck
>
The machine was seeing the disks in a different order when running the DVD
install, than when it tried to boot itself.
-chuck
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