F12 Upgrade Stumped
TNWestTex
mcforum at bellsouth.net
Sat Dec 12 14:13:17 UTC 2009
TNWestTex wrote:
>
> Getting more and more unhappy since F8. Multiboot system with VISTA, F8
> and F10 with only minor Glitches in F10. Tried to do preupgrade on the
> F10 partition.Things seemed to go alright until the reboot. System locks
> up with a blank screen. The performance of the driver for the
> "Intel Corporation"
> "82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller"
> has been poor since F8. The "i810" driver that gives good performance in
> F8 doesn't work for F10. The "Intel" driver gives an offset screen. It
> only woks without an xorg.conf. The result of system-config-display is a
> lockup. I filed a bug report long ago that I was notified was going away
> with F10 unless I could show that it was still in the newer system.
>
> The stanza in grub was as follows:
>
> title Upgrade to Fedora 12 (Constantine)
> kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade
> repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> stage2=hd:UUID=e990768e-e724-4250-bfc1-a25e0320e099:/boot/upgrade/install.img
> ks=hd:UUID=e990768e-e724-4250-bfc1-a25e0320e099:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg
> initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img
>
> The UUID agrees with what was in the F10 stanza. I saw in the forum the
> advice to add
>
> xdriver=vesa nomodeset
>
> to the kernel line. That change enabled the session to get a little
> farther, but it then fails with a message box that it can't find the root
> of the system to upgrade.
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xf4fd4adf
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 19 6949 55673257+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 1 18 144553+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 6950 30401 188378190 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 6950 13328 51239286 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6 13329 13670 2747083+ 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda7 * 13671 22102 67730008+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 22103 30401 66661686 83 Linux
>
> Tried adding a root declaration to the kernel line but neither
> root=/dev/sda7 nor
>
> root=UUID=e990768e-e724-4250-bfc1-a25e0320e099
>
> made any difference.
>
> Tried the installation DVD but the text mode install won't recognize my
> disk structure. The graphical install locks up. Is there a way to add
> the "xdriver=vesa nomodeset" to the graphical startup? The netinstall CD
> and a liveCD all have the graphics problem. I have the INTEL compiler
> suite and MATHEMATICA on the system that don't stay nicely in /home.
> Letting the text mode install convert my partition to LVM would not be
> nice!!!
>
> Robert McBroom
>
There is progress of a sort. Put the F12 live on a USB drive. I found that
I could get an alternate console when the GUI hung. from there I could
mount the F8 partition and pull the xorg.conf file for a template. With
some experimentation I was able to use the "vesa" driver and start GNOME
Saved /opt, /home and /usr/local to backup. Hopefully that is enough to
preserve the commercial software because the install from F12 Live wiped the
existing filesystem even though I did not check format. The boot loader was
supposed to go to /dev/sda7 but instead of going throuh my boot chain the
F12 session usurped command. It did pick up the VISTA.
Robert McBroom
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