All,
I’ve tried to upgrade my home server from 10.2 to 11.0 Booting from dvd is oke, however until it tries to find partitions to upgrade. It doesn’t find any (although /dev/hda2 is root partition) :’(
Also tried to upgrade from 10.2 → 10.3 … same problem.
Any thoughts … 
Have you tried booting in text mode or any of the other options?
Worth trying a boot cd of something like Parted Magic, see how it reads your discs.
When you say, it doesn’t find any. You mean it gets to the probing for part and stops? Any error messages or does it just lock up?
All,
Some more detailed info; If I boot from the DVD I have to add the bootoption edd=off (to be honest I don’t know what it means).
The install program executes as expected and I have selected Update as the Install Mode. It then tries to find partitions to update (screen “Select for Update”). However it doesn’t find any partitions to update. If I checkmark “Show all” it displays:
Unknown Linux /dev/hda1 reiser
Unknown Linux /dev/hda2 reiser
Unknown Linux /dev/hdb1 reiser
Unknown Linux /dev/hdc1 reiser
Unknown Linux /dev/hdd1 reiser
Unknown Linux /dev/sda1 ext3
Unknown Linux /dev/sda2 ext3
For none of the disks there is a label.
/dev/hda2 is the / filesystem.
A copy of /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hdf1 /mp3 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdh1 /pub reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hde1 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hde2 /tenhoopen reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdg1 /share reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /video ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 /backup ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
hy:/pub /net/hy/pub nfs defaults 0 0
hy:/mp3 /net/hy/mp3 nfs defaults 0 0
hy:/share /net/hy/share nfs defaults 0 0
hy:/tenhoopen /net/hy/tenhoopen nfs defaults 0 0
hy:/video /net/hy/video nfs defaults 0 0
hy:/backup /net/hy/backup nfs defaults 0 0
Copy of /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jan 17 21:07:35 CET 2008
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 resume=/dev/hda3 splash=silent showopts edd=off
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen###
title XEN
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/xen.gz
module /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/hda2 resume=/dev/hda3 splash=silent showopts
module /boot/initrd-xen
Please let me know if you need more info to clarify.
You need to do an installation, not upgrade
and just keep your /home partitions
and any other data partitions (remember to set mount points for them)
Thank you for your highly motivated and positive feedback :\
To give you an idea, my little server has the function of nfs,nis,dhcp,dns,web,mail,file,forum, majordomo server (and even more). It really doesn’t make sence to do a clean install the overhead is just to much.
For some reason the installer does not recognize the root partition. This must have a cause. I’m looking for the cause to correct it, and be able to do an upgrade.