Another preupgrade disaster -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 20/11/09 17:29, David Timms wrote:
> On 11/21/2009 08:50 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> I ran preupgrade on an up-to-the-minute-updated F11 system.
>> Everything seemed to proceed normally until I "rebooted."
> Do you mean rebooted to begin the upgrade ?
Yes, when preupgrade finishes it presents a button to reboot
the system and I clicked on that.
>
>> Even then it looked good until an error message came up:
>>
>> Upgrade root not found
>>
>> The root for the previously installed system was not found.
>>
>> Exit Installer [Button]
>>
>> Don't know what that means. Why does it want the "root" for the
>> previous system?
> The "root" in this case refers to the top level of your filesystem 
> tree "/". It can't find it.
>
> Can you post: cat /boot/grub/grub.conf [root at box6 ~]# cat 
> /boot/grub/grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
> file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=1
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Upgrade to Fedora 12 (Constantine)
>     kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade 
> repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade 
> stage2=hd:UUID=09e14e02-5f2b-4e87-b2b6-4d8ffb6d7f98:/upgrade/install.img 
> ks=hd:UUID=09e14e02-5f2b-4e87-b2b6-4d8ffb6d7f98:/upgrade/ks.cfg
>     initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
> title Omega 11.1 Fedora Remix (2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586)
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586 ro 
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586.img
> title Omega 11.1 Fedora Remix (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586)
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586 ro 
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586.img
> title Omega 11.1 Fedora Remix (2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586)
>     root (hd0,0)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 ro 
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586.img
>


>
> and also blkid
[root at box6 ~]# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="09e14e02-5f2b-4e87-b2b6-4d8ffb6d7f98" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda2: UUID="gsOXdB-nr4x-EGAJ-tzFw-f6zc-vnXX-EaBMxC" TYPE="lvm2pv"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="edb6f900-8a38-4e44-8d35-7bad276fa144" 
SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="J5Yc28-aO4n-ODWI-1c0W-H9Jr-04jN-ufwyRj" TYPE="lvm2pv"
/dev/dm-0: LABEL="omega-11-1" 
UUID="26d0e3dd-2bde-409e-aa7d-5a245b4e000e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/dm-1: TYPE="swap" UUID="b0b061b0-6ae9-43ba-bc1f-0eda0512de5c"
/dev/dm-2: UUID="e6ca025c-e342-469b-b182-5a95a13c939f" SEC_TYPE="ext2" 
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/dm-3: TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00: 
UUID="e6ca025c-e342-469b-b182-5a95a13c939f" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01: TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root: LABEL="omega-11-1" 
UUID="26d0e3dd-2bde-409e-aa7d-5a245b4e000e" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_swap: TYPE="swap" 
UUID="b0b061b0-6ae9-43ba-bc1f-0eda0512de5c"
/dev/root: LABEL="omega-11-1" 
UUID="26d0e3dd-2bde-409e-aa7d-5a245b4e000e" TYPE="ext4"

>   and mount -l
[root at box6 ~]# mount -l
/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw) [omega-11-1]
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0")
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
192.168.1.48:/mnt/rfg/ on /mnt/srvr1 type nfs 
(rw,user=root,noexec,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.1.48)
192.168.1.48:/mnt/glg/ on /mnt/srvr2 type nfs 
(rw,user=root,noexec,nosuid,nodev,addr=192.168.1.48)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/bobg/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bobg)

>
> I'm not sure whether your disk is inaccessible from the installer's 
> kernel, or maybe the filesystems are mounted by a label or partition 
> name that might resolve differently with this kernel.
>

There I think I have them all.

Thanks for your assistance.

Bob