Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:35:58 +0200
From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: bhanks@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut
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why in the world are you not doing the upgrade with yum?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17

preupgrade is a blackbox with success or fail (often fail)
after a yum upgrade you can verify and fix any boot-config


I normally don't use Preugrade. The Warning message on the page that you have linked above is what influenced my decision to use PreUpgrade. It says "Warning: There is a general warning about upgrading via. yum being unsupported at the top of this page. However Fedora 17 is very special. You should seriously consider stopping now and just using anaconda via. DVD or preupgrade, unlike all previous releases it's what the yum/rpm developers recommend. Continue at your own risk." This comment makes it seem like PreUpgrade is a better option.

So, now that I've chosen this road, I am certainly wishing that I would have just done a fresh install and that's likely where I will end up. I've solved the dracut problem with the following steps:
1.  grub2-mkconfig
2. Modify /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to remove all UUID references and replaced with device refs (/dev/sdax). I'm not sure why but the UUIDs were confusing dracut. They were correct, but no matter what I tried it would not work.
3.  dracut
4.  Reboot

I can now boot up to the point where the NVIDIA driver loads. This fails because it still has the FC16 variant installed. I've tried to remove and reinstall the FC17 version, but it's not working. Grub seems to have a $releasever reference to FC16. Odd given that /etc/fedora-realease and every other reference is to FC17. I'm going to try to fix this tonight. If I can't get it working, I'm just going to backup my data and do a fresh install.


Brian



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