Re: Preupgrade F10 to F11: Installer boot fails in GRUB
Robert Nichols wrote: Running preupgrade in F10, all packages are downloaded successfully, and I click on the "Reboot now" button. When the system reboots, I select the "Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" entry from the GRUB menu and get an immediate "Error 15: File not found" failure from GRUB. Everything is on one partition (no separate /boot partition). In /boot/grub/grub.conf: default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=d137c2a7-7913-42ed-87b0-6b3fac3ec768:/boot/upgrade/install.img What appears to have caused the problem is that this isn't the primary GRUB menu. It's a separate GRUB installation reached by a chainloader command in the main GRUB menu. I don't know whether it's preupgrade or anaconda that's at fault, but something ends up going to the wrong partition and of course not finding the repository created by preupgrade. Unfortunately, re-creating the problem and trying to pin down the exact cause would just take way more time than I can justify for such an oddball case. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Preupgrade F10 to F11: Installer boot fails in GRUB
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > Running preupgrade in F10, all packages are downloaded successfully, and I > click > on the "Reboot now" button. When the system reboots, I select the "Upgrade > to > Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" entry from the GRUB menu and get an immediate "Error > 15: > File not found" failure from GRUB. > <...snip...> _ I don't have an answer, but I'd like to comment on the F10->F11 preupgrade. When preupgrade finds everything perfectly aligned, it works nicely. But if something is not right, it has the potential to be a nightmare. I was testing the preupgrade in a Windows/F10 dual boot setup. The F10 had LVMs for /var and /usr in it. Preupgrade downloaded all required files and I rebooted. Somewhere along the process it said that I did not have enough space in /var; so I went back and increased the size of the LV for /var and rebooted, then once again it said I did not have enough space in the LV for /usr so I went back to increase the size of the LV for /usr and rebooted... at this point it got messed up complaining about a keyboard related module; so to be fair I'll say that maybe something went wrong with resizing the LVs. I almost gave up and thought of installing F11 directly. But, I was stubborn so I went back and re-setup the Win/F10 dual boot with a bigger VG with enough space for /var and /usr and it went without a hitch. So I pondered: (a) pregupgrade downloaded packages according to what I already had installed in my F10 setup, so (b) why not check that there's is enough disk space available *before* rebooting to start the process? or (c) is there a problem with such checks when key filesystems are in a Volume Group? I have no answers to any of my questions. My memory fails me now, but I don't remember seeing any kind of log during preupgrade as when one does a regular installs (ALT-F3 and such). A log would be most helpful for errors such as your "File not found" error. I think this preupgrade business must be handled with care. ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Preupgrade F10 to F11: Installer boot fails in GRUB
Running preupgrade in F10, all packages are downloaded successfully, and I click on the "Reboot now" button. When the system reboots, I select the "Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)" entry from the GRUB menu and get an immediate "Error 15: File not found" failure from GRUB. Everything is on one partition (no separate /boot partition). In /boot/grub/grub.conf: default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=d137c2a7-7913-42ed-87b0-6b3fac3ec768:/boot/upgrade/install.img ks=hd:UUID=d137c2a7-7913-42ed-87b0-6b3fac3ec768:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img The filesystem has the matching UUID: # tune2fs -l /dev/sda7 | grep UUID Filesystem UUID: d137c2a7-7913-42ed-87b0-6b3fac3ec768 In /boot/upgrade: total used in directory 134984 available 62504828 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-24 14:54 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-06-24 14:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18985802 2009-06-02 17:02 initrd.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116039680 2009-06-02 17:04 install.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 276 2009-06-24 14:54 ks.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3035056 2009-06-02 17:02 vmlinuz I have no idea what file GRUB is complaining it can't find. (Don't you just love error messages like that?) -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email addressw. Do NOT delete it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
