I didn't get a response yet, so perhaps I should have given more detail, as below. I ran the above preupgrade, and all seemed well, although I did the download in two sessions as it took a long time, until the reboot at the end. Then it stopped at: Write Protecting the Kernel read only date 1440k Failed to execute /init Kernel Panic not syncing. No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. It had inserted the following info in grub.conf: title Upgrade to Rawhide kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=22c9c075 -aae8-4499-a275-1ed321adafa3:/upgrade/install.img ks=hd:UUID=22c9c075-aae8-4499-a275-1ed321adafa3:/upgrade/ks.cfg I don't think there is a /init as such, so I don't know what I should do. Google didn't seem to help me, so any help appreciated! D P South Australia -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines