upgrade attempt

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM, James R. Van Zandt <jrvz at comcast.net> wrote:
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

  That is good, it means GRUB found your filesystem.

>   kernel /vmlinuz-1.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet irqpoll

  You've got a typo in the above.  "1.6.20" should be "2.6.20".  If
that's your actual kernel command (and not merely a transcription
error), that's your problem.

>   Error 15: File not found

  That means that GRUB found the filesystem, but didn't find one of
the files you specified in the filesystem.

> "smartctl --all /dev/sda" reported:
>
> I was disappointed about this brand new drive not supporting SMART and
> decided to return it.

  You might need to tell smartctl the device is an ATA type:

smartctl --device=ata --all /dev/sda

>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>          initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img

  The other thing you can do is get to the GRUB command prompt and use
the GRUB "find" command to see if GRUB can find the files you're
asking for.  Like so:

grub> find /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
grub> find /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.img

-- Ben