[19887] in Athena Bugs
automatic Athena linux upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linda Meinke)
Thu Oct 11 15:11:05 2001
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:11:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Linda Meinke <linda@ocean.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <200110111911.f9BJB4k27281@ocean.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Cc: linda@ocean.mit.edu
Hi there,
I have a private Athena Linux PC called Confucius. The user
was trying to upgrade the Athena Linux automatically but the
upgrade failed. When it tried a reboot in the middle of the
upgrade, it could not find the disk and partition. It needed
to boot from a SCSI disk and it looks like there was no SCSI
support built into the kernel. There also may have been some
confusion between an old form conf.modules and a newer form
modules.conf. I built a new kernel 2.2.17-14 with SCSI support,
put it in place and the upgrade finished. Your auto-upgrade
needs to have support for SCSI disks built in otherwise most of
my DELL PC's will not upgrade.
Thank you
Linda Meinke
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