On 05/04/2010 05:05 PM, James Laska wrote: > > preupgrade is the automated process. You'll likely need to get your > hands dirty to work around any issues that are resolved in newer > preupgrade releases. I can see that. B^) > You can try building and running the latest preupgrade on your Fedora 10 > system. Gives the same results. I have the same 2 issues depending on which release I try and install: Fedora 11 or Fedora 12: preupgrade fails while setting up the repos. It doesn't matter if I delete /boot/upgrade and /var/cache/yum/preupgrade* before I start or not. (I'm probably missing something else here as it still asks me if I want to continue my previous attempt.) The actual error is: REQUESTED DATATYPE PRIMARY IS NOT AVAILABLE If I hit the retry button, it immediately complains about repository preupgrade-main being listed more than once in the configuration. Fedora 13 Beta preupgrade chugs along, downloads the packages, sets up the reboot stuff, and lets me reboot. After rebooting (and selecting the Fedora 13 Branch if necessary), it starts up, brings up the Blue screen, starts Anaconda, starts up the X server, searches for storage devices, finds my 2 disk drives, and waits for me to select them and hit the forward button. The minute I push it, it tells me that it is unable to find my previous root filesystem. It doesn't matter if I mount it by hand on /mnt/sysimage myself or not before pushing the forward button. I did run it once with the loglevel=debug Anaconda option, and I noticed that the log says that Fredora 10 is not upgrade-able to this release in one of the DEBUG log messages. I would have thought that this message should be printed directly to the user.... What I have not yet tried is running with the "upgradeany" Anaconda option which is the last thing I will try. QUESTION: If I can't upgrade using preupgrade, will I be able to upgrade using the Fedora 13 i386 DVD upgrade process? If so, what's the difference???? Thanks for the help, I know most of you are crunching to get Fedora 13 released.... > Or, you can try playing with the boot arguments preupgrade setup. I > don't have them listed in front of me at the moment, but you need to > tell the installer where to find the packages on disk (repo=), and where > to find the stage#2 install image (stage2=). Does it matter that the repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade does not contain a disk identifier? On my system, /var is a separate partition from either / or /boot. I have tried changing it to: repo=hd:UUID=uuid:/cache/yum/preupgrade with no change in my problem (still can't find my previous root filesystem) > Acceptable values for both parameters are listed at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options I read the document. Thank-you. Very informative. > Thanks, > James -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
