On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: There isn't really a question here, but I'm going to assume you want to know what to do with your failed system. > I never put F28 onto my wife's machine, because I had too > much trouble with it on mine. I didn't mean to now, except > temporarily. I ran dnf upgrade, then did the dnf system upgrade, > giving the version to upgrade to as 28. > > Then I did the special system-upgrade reboot -- and it hung. > I tried rebooting several times, but succeeded only in getting it to > hang on a different error message, one that it now gets every time. > > That message is long, complex, and ambiguous in several > places, at least to the uninitiated. It begins by saying something > like "You are now in emergency mode." Then it talks about logging in > a/o giving commands, some as root. Finally it says you can try to > continue by hitting ^D; I've done that, and it tries to reboot but > hangs with what seems the same message. The boot process failed because it failed to find the root or boot partition, probably. That place you are at is called the dracut shell, and if you are not technically inclined you are not going to be able to recover from there (at least without a lot of coaching). I'm probably not qualified to give that coaching since it has been years since that happened to me. > I tried using UCBD, which did boot; but it was way over my > head. So I tried a few options like boot and install; no joy. All the > things I thought might help (essentially the ones not meant for > exploring hardware) did me no good. I did try its supergrub2disk, > which I've used before on its own, but got nowhere with that, either. I don't know this, but it sounds like you are flailing. > That PC is now running a live medium of F29. I could tell it > to install to hard drive; or I could burn a medium for netinstall. > (She does say she has not done significant work on her important data > since the backups I made before upgrading her to F27.) Yes, this is what I recommend you do. Easiest for a non-technical person. >From the F29 live media you can mount the hard drive under a mount point and back up everything you want. Do an /sbin/blkid to see the UUID for the hard drive (or dev identifier) Then create a mount point under mount, mkdir /mnt/myf28 for example. Then mount the hard drive at that point, (see man mount), and cd into the directories you want to backup and back them up the usual way. Once all the personal stuff you want to save is done, just install the f29 live image on the hard drive. If you keep separate data partitions, make sure you leave them untouched by the install process. That's just a rough guide, you should be able to flesh it out with searches on the web or the man pages. Or by asking further questions here. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
