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Old 11th July 2005, 01:49 AM
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FC4 upgrade from FC3: boot fails

The FC3 I installed a few weeks ago worked fine - dual-boot with Windows.
I did an upgrade install of FC4, and on boot I get

failed to create /dev/console 17
PAM audit_open()/null 17
failed Permission denied
unable to read /var/
Enabling swap space [OK]

Then it hangs.

Windows XP is on one disk, FC4 is on another disk.
Confession: I did not check the CD integrity, but there were no errors during installation.

Does anyone recognize these symptoms?
Can I ignore this issue, and do a full install, instead of an upgrade?

Regards,
Bob
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Old 11th July 2005, 01:54 AM
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make a clean install of fc4
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Old 11th July 2005, 03:23 AM
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Thanks! I'll try an install.
Should I do anything to prepare? E.g., should I delete the disk partition where I have FC4 now?

(Aside: I'm really antsy about installing. I tried to install Suse 9.1 a few months ago, and it did so much damage I had to write zeros on the hard disk before I could reinstall windows.)
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Old 1st September 2005, 03:22 PM
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I went ahead and re-installed.
Worked fine.
Thanks very much.
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