Re: f18 update woes

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  Dear all,
I am still unable to install F18 on my laptop. After giving up on F17->F18 fedup upgrading I decided to delete my window partition and install F18 there. The installer started fine, but
neither automatically not manually would it let me assign the disks.
There is "only" 70GB free, but this should not be too little. But that is what both disk setup options report. Possibly this us due to the odd disk layout I have now:

/dev/sda1                 0.1GB DellUtility
/dev/sda2                 20GB Windows recovery
Blank                        68GB unused
/dev/sda4 extended
   /dev/sda5              0.5GB /boot
   /dev/sda6              7.8GB luks (swap)
   /dev/sda7           400GB  luks All-my-files
  /dev/sda8               99GB  ext4 / F17 system

Somehow F18 install is unable to squeeze in, whether I tell it to use the
old swap space or not...
   Ideas?
     Bill




On 16/01/13 16:14, William Murray wrote:
  Dear Fedora-enthusiasts,
I have just run fedup on a couple of F17 systems with sad consequences, and I am looking for help.

1) The first was an F17 along machine. I did a network 'fedup' which ran with no errors and left it for the night. In the morning it was stick in a boot sequence. I can still boot the FC17 kernels (fortunately) but the F18 always hangs almost immediately with an error about being unable to mount the filesystem. No errors in the 3 log files. I tried reinstalling grub2 and removing/reading the F18 kernel but no joy

Generally install went OK, but with 2 monitors I still fall-back to gnome 3 mode. KDE did not upgrade; I think
it may be because later version numbers are already in FC17 then FC18.

2) The worse one in my dual-booting laptop. Win7+Fedora, using grub2 to chainload windows if desired. It is a somewhat convoluted system with Fedora 17 unencrypted plus a big encrypted partition. I ran 'fedup' (to an iso DVD file) and got no errors. Then I hit reboot - and stuck at:
   File system boot sector (C) is reserved
   There is no OS to bot on this disk.
Using a rescue disk and reinstalling GRUB2 fixed the boot startup, but loading the fedup dracut then times out waiting for device-mapper-luks and cannot boot. So I comment out the entry in /etc/fstab
But still the boot fails in the disk setup phase.  Any ideas?

  Thanks!
    Bill


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