On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Dave Cross wrote:
I've been trying to upgrade my laptop from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18 and it hasn't been going well. First I tried to use FedUp. FedUp downloaded all of the files it required. I rebooted and selected the upgrade option. I got the progress meter, but after only about thirty seconds the system rebooted and I was left with the same grub options as before the upgrade. No option to boot into Fedora 18 and no option to retry the upgrade. I booted into Fedora 17 and tried again with very similar results. However I've since noticed that something has changed as when I now run a "yum update" it tries to update over 2,000 RPMs to the Fedora 18 versions. This seems to go into an infinite loop of dependency resolution - so I killed it. I then decided that I'd download an installation DVD and try to upgrade from that. I burnt a DVD and the media test completed successfully, but I'm only offered the option to install Fedora, not to upgrade my existing installation. That's not such a problem. I have my /home directory on a separate partition, so what I've done before is to reinstall from scratch and reuse the /home partition (so I keep all of my data). But the new Anaconda partitioning UI is confusing me and I can't work out how to tell it to reuse the /home partition but reformat all the other Linux partitions and use them for the new installation. So currently I'm booted back into my Fedora 17 installation (that thinks it might be Fedora 18) pondering what my next move would be. I suppose I could just backup all of my data and trash the existing installation. But I'd be disappointed if I can't work out a way to reuse the /home partition. Can anyone suggest a way forward for me?
This sounds like a case of not having enough space on your /boot partition. I had a similar set of issues going from (?) F15 to F16 (or F16 to F17) on my laptop. At the time I had only a 100-200MB /boot partition (if anyting something smaller than what the upgrade could handle). Even with wiping out all of the backup kernels and leaving the most current one, there was still not enough space for the upgrade.
Consequently, I made sure I did a full backup of my data (/home partition and my Postgresql databases - pg_dumpall > somefile, along with a listing of all of the installed RPM packages), and then did a fresh install, increasing the /boot partition to something like 1GB. Once at that size, then the installation went very smoothly.
Thanks, Dave...
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