> Hello All, > I tried to upgrade my old machine running Fedora Core 8 to the shiny > new Fedora 12 using 'preupgrade'. I know this isn't a recommended > method, but I thought I would still try - as it went just fine on a > test machine with a similar configuration. > I have 4 disks on my main machine: 2x200Gb are mirrored (RAID1) using > a cheap Promise controller card (they were still visible as separate > disks in FC8: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb), and other 2x1Tb drives are > connected directly to the motherboard (/dev/sdc and /dev/sdd). > Everywhere LVM is used (well, it was almost a default install of Fedora 8). > My system was on /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb, which is basically the same). > Two terabyte drives were used as data-disks only. > Within my old system, 'preupgrade' ran without visible errors. Then I > restarted the system, adding 'upgradeany' parameter in grub (otherwise > it won't find a target drive - same was on the test machine as well). > My boot options in grub look like this: > kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade > repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade > stage2=hd:UUID=<probably a disk ID in LVM>:/upgrade/install.img > ks=hd:UUID=<same UUID as before>:/upgrade/ks.cfg upgradeany > It booted to the upgrade image and notified me that it can't > initialize /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, which are (according to the > error message) 1Tb each! So it says that it couldn't initialize my > data drives - Ok, I thought that I could deal with that later. > So I ignored the message and then got next error: > "Unable to read package metadata... > <skip> > Cannon retrieve repository metadata (repmod.xml) for repository: > anaconda-InstallationRepo-200911081854.i386. Please verify its path > and try again." > I searched for the file and it's actually at: > /mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/ > But that's probably not where installer expects it to be... > Here's output of df -k (copied it by hand, sorry for a bad > spacing): > Filesystem Used Available Mounted on > /dev 204 508876 /dev > none 119076 390004 /tmp > /dev/loop0 118912 0 /mnt/runtime > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 3808856 23013188 /mnt/sysimage > /dev/mapper/pdc_eceihagjhp1 > 164366 20037 /mnt/sysimage/boot > /dev 204 508876 /mnt/sysimage/dev > /dev/tmpfs 0 509080 /mnt/sysimage/dev/shm > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 > 4756984 145787384 /mnt/sysimage/storage > Looks like my filesystem is somehow mounted, although I'm not sure if > I should also have 'VolGroup00-LogVol01' somewhere as well... > As my installation couldn't continue, I decided to 'exit installer' > and reboot to my previous system. But my old system is now not > available as well. It starts to boot, shows something regarding LVM > (like it found a drive) and then shows a lot of lines: > /bin/sh invalid option --n > and stops with a login prompt. I can't login either - after I enter a > username it waits for some seconds and then brings a new login > prompt again... > Well, I know I did something wrong, and I don't know what it is. But I > would really like to bring my system back - either in Fedora 12 or > Fedora 8. Is there a way to do it, without reinstalling the whole > system from scratch (there are some valuable data, especially on the > 1Tb drives)...? > I apologise for such a messy description. If there's anything I can > provide or clarify - let me know how I could do it. > I would really appreciate any hints on how to get my system back... Update: now while trying to boot to an old FC8, I get an error: /sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libsepol.so.1: invalid ELF header Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Doesn't look good... :-( I would prefer to continue with an upgrade to F12 if possible, but I don't know how to do it and I'm not sure it is possible at all... -- Best regards, Andrew -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
