Message-Id: <a05100302b85513d33f5a@[192.168.0.10]> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:09:30 -0500 From: "Luis F. Ortiz" <LuisOrtiz@telocity.com> Subject: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7.3 On SparcBlade100 Upgrade from Suse 7.1 + Kukuk_Hacks
A long time ago Mr. Kukuk released a set of instructions for
installing Suse 7.1 with a set of packages that included
k_blade-2.4.5-0.sparc64.rpm . I was running happily for months and
then got the itch to upgrade to SuSE 7.3 a few days ago.
The update went well on my SPARC Blade 100 until it asked me for the
kernel to install, and it only showed me the 32 bit and not the 64
bit kernels and then later failed in the mk_initrd call, but allowed
me to proceed to the reboot and it rebooted into the orignal kernel
and could no longer start up X and YAST2 went into text mode and
would not let me access the CDROM, which kinda made it hard to
continue the upgrade.
I worked around the problem by manually uninstalling the k_blade RPM
and then forcing the install of the appropriate 2.4 kernel RPM
(k_deflt-2.4.14-1.rpm I think). After then retrying the install, it
still tried to install the wrong kernel, still failed the mk_initrd,
but the text mode yast2 was now able to access the CDROM OK and the
update appeared to be able to proceed successfully.
I'm sure something else is broken, and it will take me weeks to
figure it out, but I wanted to let folks know in case anyone else
tries to upgrade from SuSE 7.1 to 7.3 on a SPARC Blade 100.
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