On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've just spent a few hours trying to upgrade from F8 to F9 using > preupgrade. It still hasn't worked and I no longer have a working > Linux installation. I'm typing this on Windows. Here's my story. > > I ran preupgrade yesterday and downloaded all of the required RPMs (or > so I thought). This evening I booted into the installation procedure. > > The first problem was that the path for the stage 2 image was wrong. I > had to reboot into my old Fedora installation and edit the grub.conf > to add a slash to the front of the path. It was: > > stage2=hd:sda6:boot/upgrade/stage2.img > > And I changed it to: > > stage2=hd:sda6:/boot/upgrade/stage2.img > > I see from other messages here that this is quite a common issue. It seems to do that when boot is not a separate partition from root. I did an upgrade on two systems now: one worked and one had that issue and that was the main difference. > Unless anyone has any better suggestions. Rather than downloading the LiveCD, all you need might be the rescue ISO image. - download the missing kernel rpm and stick on some media that you can mount from Linux. - download the much smaller rescue ISO image, burn that, boot to it - chroot to the partition it suggests your root filesystems is on - do an rpm -i kernel... on the missing kernel package that you previously downloaded If that wasn't the only missing rpm, the path to recovery might be simplest to do normal upgrade via DVD. /Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
