Re: [CentOS] Crashed a CentOS 8 installation.

2019-10-17 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
Hi, The mistake was EFI. The source CentOS 7.7 machine was EFI boot. and the destination CentOS 8 VM was non EFI. Made a VM snapshot and wrote a script to install the packages one by one and reboot each time. The VM crashed at grub2-efi-x64.x86_64 thanks. -- Thomas Stephen Lee On Wed, Oct

Re: [CentOS] Crashed a CentOS 8 installation.

2019-10-16 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 10/16/19 4:05 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:00:20PM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: >> Failed to switch root: Specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem to >> be an OS tree. os-release file is missing. >> >> What am I doing wrong? > > Tested, and yes, this

Re: [CentOS] Crashed a CentOS 8 installation.

2019-10-16 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:00:20PM +0530, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > Failed to switch root: Specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem to > be an OS tree. os-release file is missing. > > What am I doing wrong? Tested, and yes, this happens after a reboot, grub2 isn't giving the initrd a

Re: [CentOS] Crashed a CentOS 8 installation.

2019-10-16 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
Hi, http://bit.ly/packages-list missing attachment thanks --- Thomas Stephen Lee On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:00 PM Thomas Stephen Lee wrote: > Hi, > > Note: Please do this on a test VM. > > My issue: > > I took the output of the following command > > $ yum list installed | xargs -n3 | column

[CentOS] Crashed a CentOS 8 installation.

2019-10-16 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
Hi, Note: Please do this on a test VM. My issue: I took the output of the following command $ yum list installed | xargs -n3 | column -t | tail -n +3 |cut -d' ' -f1 > packages.list from a CentOS 7.7 Installation. and did $ dnf install $(cat packages.list) --setopt=strict=0 on Freshly