Lou Spironello wrote:
Thank's Jim for responding to my post.
Please forgive me for not posting details sooner.
In the interim I've done a number of things none of which were
successful in getting F7 to prompt for and install or upgrade
options.
I did not realize that there were so many disk management utilities. I
usually only use fdisk.
Thanks for the information about the programs and the results from using
each one.
Checklist:
- Is Fedora release installed and intact? - (yes)
- Do you have a regular kernel installed - (yes)
- disk partitioning errors, is raid remnants causing the lack of upgrade
choice? - (No, correcting the disk layout did not make any difference.}
- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are
they LABEL references or device references?
I checked bugzilla and it was pretty vacant of reports for this problem.
I did find this excerpt from bugzilla on an updated boot.iso file. I
don't know if this would help with your problem though.
EXCERPT from bugzilla report:
This bug is now addressed by an updates image. It is available for
download at:
http://people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img
Instructions for using updates disks are located at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates
If possible, please test this image out and report if it fixes your issue or
not. Once we are confident that your issue is solved by this image, we are
going to announce it more publicly. This fix may also be included in an
updated
anaconda package later for people who are making custom Fedora
distributions.
Thanks for your time.
END OF EXCERPT:
Jim
SYSTEM INFO SO FAR:
default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu
#title Fedora Core ( 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen) # root (hd0,0) #
kernel /xen.gz- 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 # module
/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16
# module /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen.img title Fedora Core
(2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro
root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16 initrd
/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
</snip> ========== # sfdisk -l
<snip>
Disk /dev/hda: 19929 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1
* 0+ 24 25- 200781 83 Linux /dev/hda2 25
6086 6062 48693015 83 Linux /dev/hda3 6087 12166
6080 48837600 83 Linux /dev/hda4 12167 19928 7762
62348265 5 Extended /dev/hda5 12167+ 12410 244-
1959898+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 12411+ 19928
7518- 60388303+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdc: 116301 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdc1
0+ 40634 40635- 20480008+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 40635 81269
40635 20480040 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 81270 116300 35031
17655624 83 Linux /dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0
0 Empty
Disk /dev/hdd: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hdd1
0+ 194 195- 98248+ 83 Linux /dev/hdd2 195 116452
116258 58594032 83 Linux /dev/hdd3 116453 209265 92813
46777752 83 Linux /dev/hdd4 209266 238215 28950 14590800
83 Linux
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