Very BAD preupgrade experience.
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Wed Dec 30 13:43:20 UTC 2009
Just had a bad experience with preupgrade.
Had a phenom II x64 machine that had Fedora 11 freshly installed with
default settengs a few weeks before 12 came out. Finally decided to try the
upgrade to see how it would work, but could have done a clean install if it
didn't work.
Preupgraded started find downloading files, but eventually came up with a
message that it needed more space on /boot. Removed all but latest kernel,
and memtest and eventually needed to remove the splash graphic to get it to
work, but fianllly got enough space. So the preupgrade to finish the process
to reboot. Then when it rebooted, there was a message that it needed more
space, but there was nothing on the /boot to be removed. I was able to boot
back to the Fedora 11 kernel, and then tried a last resort option. Took the
initrd in the upgrade directory, and first gunziped it, and then used lzma on it.
The resuld was about 500M smaller size, and then was able to reboot. This
then alllowed the preupgrade boot to work, and the system has now
upgraded.
It would have been nicer to get a message to either no do a preupgrade, or
to have a way to resize the systems. Would have tired partimage, but it
doesn't resize lvm, so that would be another problem.
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