Re: F14->F15 after preupgrade boot hang

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On 27 May 2011 10:32, Dj YB <syehielb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday May 27 2011 12:24:03 you wrote:
>> On 27 May 2011 09:53, Dj YB <syehielb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > on my other F14 installation did a preupgrade yesterday then rebooted and
>> > then waited forever and nothing happened.
>> >
>> > any idea what to do?
>> >
>> > this is an installation on a usb flash drive which is working fine.
>> > using nvidia display
>> >
>> > Thanks for any hint,
>> > YB.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How far does it get? Do you get to the blue starting screen (the one
>> with the Fedora logo-shaped progress meter)? Are you able to check the
>> kernel options in grub and see whether rhgb is there or not (maybe an
>> issue with nvidia drivers)? Were you using the standard kernel drivers
>> for your display under F14 (nv/nouveau) or had you installed the
>> nvidia ones? Also, how long is forever (my laptop had a problem which
>> caused boot to hang for 5 minutes)?
>
> Hi,
>
> it see grub
>
> title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
> Â Â Â Âkernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> ks=hd:UUID=bee474b4-0ac7-46b9-bf27-9e81994e324c:/upgrade/ks.cfg
> Â Â Â Âinitrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>
> I choose this upgrade and all i get is the blinking cursor in the upper left
> corner of the screen
> the longest I waited was about half an hour, in this time there seems to be no
> activity in the disk.
> pc is responding to keyboard Alt+Ctrl+Del and restart.
>

Best to send this reply to the list as I have no idea what's going on,
just trying to get some information that might help others figure it
out.

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