Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 18:53 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> Will Woods wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:40 +0000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> >   
> >> seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
> >>     
> >>> good, but I need to make sure that error gets caught properly.
> >>>       
> >> True at least to show a pop up or something because when it happens, the
> >> application just hangs (and killing the gui leaves a python process running).
> >>
> >> In the end, preupgrade downloaded 1.5 GB worth of packages and I rebooted to
> >> start the upgrade.  Sadly anaconda crashes right away (SIGSEV), looks like it's
> >> having problem with stage2 because it claims in cannot 'find an ext2 filesystem
> >> on dev loop0' right after trying to mount it as an isofs image (file tells me
> >> minstg2.img is a squashfs image):
> >> minstg2.img: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.1, 60449651 bytes,
> >> 10107 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: Wed Mar 19 19:00:09 2008
> >>
> >> Here's what my grub.conf looks like:
> >> title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Beta
> >>         kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us
> >> stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/minstg2.img
> >> method=http://fedora.mirror.facebook.com/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/i386/os
> >>         initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
> >>     
> >
> > Ah. Upgrading to Beta might not work. Try upgrading to Rawhide instead. 
> >
> > Rawhide is basically the Preview Release right now, and it's got a much
> > newer Anaconda that has fixes for a bunch of these problems.
> >
> > You might want to clear out the caches first, just to be 100% sure:
> >   rm -rf /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade /boot/upgrade
> >
> > -w
> >   
> Does not work.....
> 
> Correct path to images are not set in grub entry nor
> does manually changing the path to the correct one in grub fix the issue 
> that
> it cant mount/read the image...
> 

You have your /boot on which disk?

B/c I think this is similar to another problem that was reported.

-sv