On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:48:55 -0500 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However when I run fdisk on that computer it shows two drives flagged > as boot. It boots from /dev/sdb. And I see there is an error in the > partitioning on /dev/sda. I wonder if that can cause confusion? It > certainly hasn't bothered F-11, I never noticed before. I would have > tried removing the other boot "*" but I'm not sure if telling it to > write that will cause other problems, with it all being lvm I don't > know if anything is written to that disk that I need? I have a strong > temptation to run fdisk and fix that! Any suggestions ... I don't think this matters. I have the same, with multiple disks, and F12 boots just fine. > > cat fdisk.txt > > # fdisk.txt > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda2 26 30401 243991201 8e Linux LVM > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sdb2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM > > Also I never removed the parts of grub.conf that refer to the kernels > I removed before starting this exercise. I don't think this matters either. Grub won't look at anything until it is selected. It is a little sloppy, you probably should have use rpm or yum to remove them so that all the related information was removed as well. At this point, if I was in your shoes, I would use the yum upgrade method. It requires a more in depth knowledge of dependencies and a willingness to work around them, but it gives errors to work with when it fails. For that reason I would turn up error reporting in /etc/yum.conf and redirect output to a file when running yum. I find preupgrade difficult to troubleshoot as compared to yum, more blackbox, it either works or it doesn't. http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum&oldid=137395 I recommend you do this from runlevel 3 to avoid issues with X, if you decide to go this way. After you install the fedora12-arch package, there should be everything and update repositories in /var/cache/yum for f12. You can just move the preupgrade packages into one of them there and they should be used (use the packages directory) I haven't got anything more to offer for preupgrade help. Maybe someone eles can give you more help, or you can find a bugzilla that has your error at http://bugzilla.redhat.com . Good luck. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
