Cannot upgrade from FC6->F7. No upgrade option given in install screen.
Lou Spironello
lspironello at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 00:58:10 UTC 2007
Dear Jim:
Please forgive me for NOT including fstab. I thought I had but I did not.
Since
I am currently not at my machine and "out of the building" I cannot upload
my
fstab, however, I can asure you that all devices referenced in fstab are
labeled
as well as any partition on the disk.
I still see remnats of raid, i.e. /dev/md0 continues to be created upon
reboot.
I was #fedora irc yesterday speaking with someone who seem quite
knowledgable about these issue and he suggested to comment out the template
reference to the md device
in /dev/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.??? /dev/md0 was recreated upon reboot
again.
re: the confusing in the installer. I thought about that when I saw the FC6
had labeled /boot as /boot1 and /usr as /usr1 so I relabeled those
/boot1->/boot and /usr1->/boot and nada. Didn't fix it.
/etc/fstab
<snip>
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=SWAP-hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/d1 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /mnt/d2 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc3 /mnt/d3 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/d4 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd2 /mnt/d5 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd3 /mnt/d6 ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/d7 ext3 defaults 0 0
</snip>
I just tried the f7-updates.img using:
linux updates=http:/people.redhat.com/clumens/f7-updates.img
and anaconda prompted for local ip and appeared to retrieve the image.
However, that apparently didn't fix the problem. After it searched for
previous
releases I received the "Partition Type" screen with no screen to
select the type of install, i.e. install or upgrade.
I'm at my wits end. I'm attempting to move /etc /home /usr/local /var/www
but thinking that might have to reformat but I don't know if I have the
space
to move the files.
Any other ideas? Ideas about removing that /dev/md0 device?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Lou
- What about you labels in fstab? would they confuse the installer? Are
they LABEL references or device references?
On 6/6/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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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