On 07/11/2010 09:36 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > On 11 July 2010 16:50, JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 07/11/2010 09:03 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >>> I'm trying to use preupgrade to upgrade my Dell Studio XPS from Fedora >>> 12 to Fedora 13. >>> >>> It got through the bit where it downloads all of the required data >>> from the internet and prompts me to reboot the PC. >>> >>> I reboot the PC and select "upgrade to Goddard" from the grub menu. >>> >>> After a while, I then get the message: >>> >>> "Unable to find any device of the type needed for this installation >>> type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver >>> disk." >>> >>> There's an option to choose a driver from a list. But the list as huge >>> and seems to contain entries for all sorts of drivers - network cards, >>> storage devices, probably others - I don't know what I should be >>> choosing. >>> >>> Can anyone suggest what might be going wrong here? And what I can do >>> to fix it. >> At the time you got this problem, were you fully connected to the network? >> Probably not - right? > I doubt it. I guess it had rebooted into anaconda's minimal Linux > version which probably doesn't have networking support. > >> If so, I suspect it is looking for the driver to use for the network >> instead of probing for the device by itself and selecting the right driver. > But I don't understand why it would need a network connection. It's > already downloaded all of the data that it needs. > > Dave... I said 'suspect' - but am not sure. If it is indeed looking for a network device driver, and failing to find one, it bails out - then it is a coding error. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
