Hi all,
I finally made fedup work. Whoopee, now I have a nice new system.
Procedure:
* comment out two funny mounts I have in /etc/fstab
(mount an internal iso and mount a big encrypted disk with soft-links
into it)
* run fedup & boot
* reinstate the mounts
And finally all is well. As a side-bonus I have 60GB free that used to
have an unused windows partition :)
Bill
On 17/01/13 10:17, William Murray wrote:
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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