Re: F8 -> F9 Preupgrade Issues
- From: "Wong Kwok-hon" <kwokhon@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 09:56:09 +0800
Hello,
So the the yum upgrade is safer than preupgrade? Because I am still
waiting for nvidia driver present so that I can get the full function
of 3D...
Best Regards,
Wong Kwok Hon
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Michael Wiktowy
<michael.wiktowy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've just spent a few hours trying to upgrade from F8 to F9 using
preupgrade. It still hasn't worked and I no longer have a working
Linux installation. I'm typing this on Windows. Here's my story.
I ran preupgrade yesterday and downloaded all of the required RPMs (or
so I thought). This evening I booted into the installation procedure.
The first problem was that the path for the stage 2 image was wrong. I
had to reboot into my old Fedora installation and edit the grub.conf
to add a slash to the front of the path. It was:
stage2=hd:sda6:boot/upgrade/stage2.img
And I changed it to:
stage2=hd:sda6:/boot/upgrade/stage2.img
I see from other messages here that this is quite a common issue.
It seems to do that when boot is not a separate partition from root. I
did an upgrade on two systems now: one worked and one had that issue
and that was the main difference.
Unless anyone has any better suggestions.
Rather than downloading the LiveCD, all you need might be the rescue ISO image.
- download the missing kernel rpm and stick on some media that you can
mount from Linux.
- download the much smaller rescue ISO image, burn that, boot to it
- chroot to the partition it suggests your root filesystems is on
- do an rpm -i kernel... on the missing kernel package that you
previously downloaded
If that wasn't the only missing rpm, the path to recovery might be
simplest to do normal upgrade via DVD.
/Mike
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