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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: hal9king on June 02, 2015, 06:38:16 PM

Title: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
Post by: hal9king on June 02, 2015, 06:38:16 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???

Title: Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
Post by: gerald_clark on June 02, 2015, 06:41:53 PM

You are not booting the core.gz you think you are booting.
Run "version" to check your version.

Title: Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
Post by: hal9king on June 02, 2015, 06:54:54 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?

Title: Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
Post by: gerald_clark on June 02, 2015, 07:01:13 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

Title: Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
Post by: hal9king on June 02, 2015, 07:10:53 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???

Title: Re: Upgrading 6.2 to 6.3
Post by: hal9king on June 02, 2015, 07:22:25 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!