F12 work around for out of space on /boot for preupgrade?

[jarmo]

On keskiviikko 18 marraskuu 2009 19:02:29 Steven Stern wrote:
> On 11/18/2009 10:52 AM, jarmo wrote:
> > On keskiviikko 18 marraskuu 2009 18:15:43 Linuxguy123 
wrote:
> >> I am wondering if running gparted from a live disk would allow
> >
> > you to
> >
> >> resize /boot without losing any data.
> >>
> >> Please keep us informed... I have exactly 187 MB free after
> >
> > cleaning up
> >
> >> and that is supposedly how much it needs.   How much free
> >
> > space do you
> >
> >> have ?  (df -h)
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >
> > I tried with sysresc-cd and gparted complained, that LVM is not 
yet
> > supported. So.... I need 8M more space.....
> 
> I'm bailing out of preupgrade. I've deleted all the preupgrade files.
> I've got the DVD and am going to perform an upgrade from that.
> 
> Next time I do a clean install, I'm not going to use LVM.
> 

Anyway, tune2fs -r 0 /dev/sda1, in my case was enough
to get sysrem preupgraded. Went smoothly throug, except kernel
panic at start. fortunately I had compiled vanilla-kernel, what with 
got system running. Ques have to run grub-install to get fc12 kernel
running.

Jarmo