Another preupgrade disaster -
stan
gryt2 at q.com
Sat Nov 21 16:49:31 UTC 2009
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:48:55 -0500
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
> However when I run fdisk on that computer it shows two drives flagged
> as boot. It boots from /dev/sdb. And I see there is an error in the
> partitioning on /dev/sda. I wonder if that can cause confusion? It
> certainly hasn't bothered F-11, I never noticed before. I would have
> tried removing the other boot "*" but I'm not sure if telling it to
> write that will cause other problems, with it all being lvm I don't
> know if anything is written to that disk that I need? I have a strong
> temptation to run fdisk and fix that! Any suggestions ...
I don't think this matters. I have the same, with multiple disks, and
F12 boots just fine.
>
> cat fdisk.txt
>
> # fdisk.txt
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2 26 30401 243991201 8e Linux LVM
>
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sdb2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM
>
> Also I never removed the parts of grub.conf that refer to the kernels
> I removed before starting this exercise.
I don't think this matters either. Grub won't look at anything until
it is selected. It is a little sloppy, you probably should have use
rpm or yum to remove them so that all the related information was
removed as well.
At this point, if I was in your shoes, I would use the yum upgrade
method. It requires a more in depth knowledge of dependencies and a
willingness to work around them, but it gives errors to work with when
it fails. For that reason I would turn up error reporting
in /etc/yum.conf and redirect output to a file when running yum. I
find preupgrade difficult to troubleshoot as compared to yum, more
blackbox, it either works or it doesn't.
http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum&oldid=137395
I recommend you do this from runlevel 3 to avoid issues with X, if you
decide to go this way. After you install the fedora12-arch package,
there should be everything and update repositories in /var/cache/yum for
f12. You can just move the preupgrade packages into one of them there
and they should be used (use the packages directory)
I haven't got anything more to offer for preupgrade help. Maybe
someone eles can give you more help, or you can find a bugzilla that
has your error at http://bugzilla.redhat.com . Good luck.
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