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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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
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 --