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Offline hal9king

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Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
« on: June 02, 2015, 03:38:16 PM »
Odd issue.   Likely something this newbie did wrong, but here it is:

Upgraded CorePlus from 6.2 to 6.3 by coping core.gz into place (and vmlinuz as well but it was identical to 6.2).

I then installed to USB.  It booted and said it was 6.3 and I verified by going into Apps and doing Upgrade Maintenance -- 6.3.

HOWEVER, when I reboot using as source the hard drive I had copied 6.3 to (overwriting 6.2) the Apps Update Maintenance still says its 6.2 and I needs to be upgraded. ????

So how is this possible?  The USB was a clone of the hard drive???
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2015, 03:41:53 PM »
You are not booting the core.gz you think you are booting.
Run "version" to check your version.

Offline hal9king

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Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2015, 03:54:54 PM »
That I agree ... but where does it look for the core to boot?
(version does give 6.2 on thew hard drive)

So what should I do?   Use the USB and boot the system then copy the core.gz back to the hard drive?
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Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 04:01:13 PM »
I don't know how you originally installed core to the hard drive.
If you used tc-install it will be /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/boot/core.gz

Offline hal9king

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Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2015, 04:10:53 PM »
I just checked it -- it is the 6.3 core.gz -- note my extlinux.conf refers to it as /tce/boot/core.gz -- so where is that at boot time???
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Offline hal9king

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Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2015, 04:22:25 PM »
OK found it -- it was something I didn't do -- forgot that the  system was booting using LILO on another OS.

Simply had to reboot into the other OS and execute 'lilo' -- and it came up 6.3 when I rebooted -- big dummy!

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