Re: F8 -> F9 Preupgrade Issues

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:29 PM, 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.

Is there a rescue ISO for F9? I haven't seen a reference to one anywhere.

- download the missing kernel rpm and stick on some media that you can
mount from Linux.

Got that.

- download the much smaller rescue ISO image, burn that, boot to it

Looking for that.

- 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.

There's another problem. As I've mentioned in a couple of other
discussions. My laptop is incapable of booting any Fedora installation
CDs and DVDs since F7. If I could boot the installation DVD then I'd
just do that. I tried the Live CD yesterday and that didn't boot
either. I doubt that the rescue CD will either.

I've just created a USB stick with the Live CD on. I'll try to boot from that.

Otherwise, I really can't think of any other approach. I really like
the preupgrade idea as it was going to enable me to do a (non-yum)
upgrade without the problem of booting from the installation media. I
didn't think it would stop my system from booting :-(

Dave...

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