On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 14:44 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > 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. Hmm, worth a try. I'm not familiar with this aspect of the upgrade process. > 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???? Yes. Preupgrade is just another supported (but newer) upgrade method, often a simpler method for upgrading an existing system. Unfortunately, you have the midas touch! http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f13/en-US/html/ch18s02.html > 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) I've been told that is not a problem. But I've not investigated in detail yet. I'd need to look at the anaconda/loader source code, or see if one of the anaconda developers knows. > > 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
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