Cannot upgrade from FC6->F7. No upgrade option given in install screen.

[Jim Cornette]

Lou Spironello wrote:
> Thank's Jim for responding to my post.
> 
> Please forgive me for not posting details sooner.
> 
> In the interim I've done a number of things none of which were
> successful in getting F7 to prompt for and install or upgrade
> options.

I did not realize that there were so many disk management utilities. I
usually only use fdisk.

Thanks for the information about the programs and the results from using
each one.

Checklist:
- Is Fedora release installed and intact? - (yes)
- Do you have a regular kernel installed - (yes)
- disk partitioning errors, is raid remnants causing the lack of upgrade
choice? - (No, correcting the disk layout did not make any difference.}

- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are
they LABEL references or device references?

I checked bugzilla and it was pretty vacant of reports for this problem.
I did find this excerpt from bugzilla on an updated boot.iso file. I
don't know if this would help with your problem though.

EXCERPT from bugzilla report:
This bug is now addressed by an updates image. It is available for
download at:

http://people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img

Instructions for using updates disks are located at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Updates

If possible, please test this image out and report if it fixes your issue or
not. Once we are confident that your issue is solved by this image, we are
going to announce it more publicly. This fix may also be included in an
updated
anaconda package later for people who are making custom Fedora
distributions.
Thanks for your time.
END OF EXCERPT:

Jim


SYSTEM INFO SO FAR:
> default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu
>  #title Fedora Core ( 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen) #       root (hd0,0) #
> kernel /xen.gz- 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 #       module
> /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16 
> #       module /initrd-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6xen.img title Fedora Core
> (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet max_loop=16 initrd
> /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
> 
> </snip> ========== # sfdisk -l
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 19929 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
> cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
> Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System /dev/hda1
> *      0+     24      25-    200781   83  Linux /dev/hda2         25
> 6086    6062   48693015   83  Linux /dev/hda3       6087   12166
> 6080   48837600   83  Linux /dev/hda4      12167   19928    7762
> 62348265    5  Extended /dev/hda5      12167+  12410     244-
> 1959898+  82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6      12411+  19928
> 7518-  60388303+  83  Linux
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc: 116301 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
> cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
> Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System /dev/hdc1
> 0+  40634   40635-  20480008+  83  Linux /dev/hdc2      40635   81269
> 40635   20480040   83  Linux /dev/hdc3      81270  116300   35031
> 17655624   83  Linux /dev/hdc4          0       -       0          0
> 0  Empty
> 
> Disk /dev/hdd: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units =
> cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
> Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System /dev/hdd1
> 0+    194     195-     98248+  83  Linux /dev/hdd2        195  116452
> 116258   58594032   83  Linux /dev/hdd3     116453  209265   92813
> 46777752   83  Linux /dev/hdd4     209266  238215   28950   14590800
> 83  Linux


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