hmmm.
I need to think on this for a sec..... ok thinking done...

do you know what your partitions are (labeled from previous installs)?
if so, then placing that info in disk druid will only place it in fstab at the proper time.

otherise, it won't format them unless you specify to do so.

after disk druid does its thing, then the normal upgrade should
begin almost immediately.

UInless there are unplanned problems, the upgrade should go relatively 
smooth (but knowing redhat 7, there may be one or 2 minor glitches).

if you want, I can help you with it inperson (assuming you are on the west side of
town). otherwise, it might get a little dicey overthe phone.
 
Hawke

On Thu, 12 April 2001, "Carl Parrish" wrote:

> 
> Yes I updated the motherboard. If I do an upgrade will it delete my
> partitions. Also the box was running RHat 6.2 and the only disk I can seem
> to find is RHAT 7.0 since the new motherboard has USB connections I kind of
> want to switch to 7.0 anyways but when I get to diskduird <sp?> non of my
> partitions are labled (even though I *know* I named them). Can I just go
> though without formating any of my partitions?
> 
> Carl sonotasystemadmin Parrish
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: proudhawk@uswestmail.net <proudhawk@uswestmail.net>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: HELP (again)
> 
> 
> >wasthe motherboard itself udated?
> >if so, I would suggest that you do an install using the "upgrade" option
> >to reinstall the existing kernel and rewrite the lilo.
> >
> >I have had this expereince before and that is generally the neatest and
> >easiest way around the problem. However, if you are a masochist, you can
> >edit a number of the conf files and perhaps even rerun lilo, but it looks
> >more like the kernel itself may be the problem.
> >
> >Hawke
> >
> >On Thu, 12 April 2001
> >
> >, "Carl Parrish" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Okay I just upgraded on of my old boxes (new chip, motherboard, and
> case).
> >> It's a dual boot box and Windows comes up does it's plug and play thing
> and
> >> more or less is done (it doesn't seem to be able to see the new sound
> card
> >> but since I never use M$98 I don't care). But when I tell Lilo to boot up
> >> into Linux I get the following error message
> >>
> >> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> >> In swapper task - not syncing
> >>
> >> Okay with my boot disk I'm able to do linux recover and come into some
> kind
> >> of shell but I don't know any of the commands here can the filesystem
> looks
> >> weird. How do I get my linux box back up? Is there a command which will
> >> attempt syncing for me?
> >>
> >> Thanks all
> >> Carl P.
> >>
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