[vox-tech] Urgent - Problem in upgradation of RH 7.1 to RH 7.2 !!

[Geoffrey Herteg]

Sounds like there may not be ext3 support in the kernel you're trying to
boot. Did the upgrade successfully run LILO/Grub before trying to install
all the RPMs?

You may need to boot off of a rescue CD/floppy, get to a prompt and then
mount your old root to something like /mnt.  Then delete the ext3
journalling file, change the root entry in /etc/fstab to ext2 (instead of
ext3) and reboot.

Hope these suggestions help!

-- G

On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:54:31AM -0800, Viswanath P wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>      I have tried to upgrade my Linux from RedHat 7.1
> to RedHat 7.2 and after choosing ext3 file system
> and upgrading the packages it had successfully
> installed the package and prompted me to install the
> second disk.  When it is trying to read the second
> disk there is some problem with tetex.rpm file
> complaining of bad file or corrupt region.  So, I
> rebooted the machine and went to rescue mode.
> 
>      I have both windows and linux mounted in my hard
> disk.  After typing one by one the partition
> \dev\hda1,
> \dev\hda2, \dev\hda3 (windows), \dev\hda5, \dev\hda6
> in the linux rescue mode(F5 key), it screamed "kernel
> panic root is not found".  
> 
> Since I am a NEWBIE in installing(usually our
> sysadmin does it!).  Kindly help me in overcoming this
> problem since I had already retrieve my datas after
> crashing once.  Sorry to post this during christmas
> eve.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Please mail me in detail.
> 
> Viswanath P.
> 
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