On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings. At work we're attemtping to upgrade a bunch of Fedora 8 > (i386) systems to Fedora 10, using the preupgrade utility. > > We've tried this on five or six systems now. In a couple of cases it > has been laughably easy to upgrade this way. But in the majority of > cases the procedure fails completely. > > We had one case where the system halted (frozen) at the: > > GRUB > > prompt. This was during the first reboot after running the preupgrade > utlity. > > In another case, the system hung at the same place (first reboot after > running preupgrade) with some indecipherable graphic repeated endlessly > across the screen: > > mumble mumble ... mumble > mumble ... mumble > . . > . . > . . > mumble ... mumble > > In another case that was reported to me, but which I didn't see > first-hand, the entire preupgrade process seemed to go entirely > smoothly, but the system was still running Fedora 8 after all the > reboots. > > Am I missing something here? As I said, when the procedure works, it > seems very simple, so it's hard to see how we could be missing steps or > whatever. > > Is this behavior typical? Is there some workaround, e.g., some kernel > parameter to supply, or some other edit to grub.conf, for instance? > > Thanks. > > -- Mike Last night I tried preupgrade on a VMware Workstation F8_x64 client. After downloading 2+ GB of packages the installer (anaconda) could not find the drive it was supposed to upgrade. That'll teach me to listen to fanboyish chatter. Better off installing fresh using DVD or ISO image. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
