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... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
