f18 update woes - success

[Bill Murray]

   Hi all,
    I finally made fedup work. Whoopee, now I have a nice new system. 
Procedure:

* comment out two funny mounts I have in /etc/fstab
   (mount an internal iso and mount a big encrypted disk with soft-links 
into it)
* run fedup & boot
* reinstate the mounts

  And finally all is well. As a side-bonus I have 60GB free that used to 
have an unused windows partition :)
     Bill





On 17/01/13 10:17, William Murray wrote:
>   Dear all,
>      I am still unable to install F18 on my laptop. After giving up on 
> F17->F18 fedup upgrading
> I decided to delete my window partition and install F18 there. The 
> installer started fine, but
> neither automatically not manually would it let me assign the disks.
>   There is "only" 70GB free, but this should not be too little. But 
> that is what both disk
> setup options report. Possibly this us due to the odd disk layout I 
> have now:
>
> /dev/sda1                 0.1GB DellUtility
> /dev/sda2                 20GB Windows recovery
> Blank                        68GB unused
> /dev/sda4 extended
>    /dev/sda5              0.5GB /boot
>    /dev/sda6              7.8GB luks (swap)
>    /dev/sda7           400GB  luks All-my-files
>   /dev/sda8               99GB  ext4 / F17 system
>
> Somehow F18 install is unable to squeeze in, whether I tell it to use the
> old swap space or not...
>    Ideas?
>      Bill
>
>
>
>
> On 16/01/13 16:14, William Murray wrote:
>>   Dear Fedora-enthusiasts,
>>     I have just run fedup on a couple of F17 systems with sad 
>> consequences, and I am looking for help.
>>
>> 1) The first was an F17 along machine. I did a network 'fedup' which 
>> ran with no errors and left it for the
>> night. In the morning it was stick in a boot sequence. I can still 
>> boot the FC17 kernels (fortunately)
>> but the F18 always hangs almost immediately with an error about being 
>> unable to mount the filesystem.
>> No errors in the 3 log files. I tried reinstalling grub2 and 
>> removing/reading the F18 kernel but no joy
>>
>> Generally install went OK, but with 2 monitors I still fall-back to 
>> gnome 3 mode. KDE did not upgrade; I think
>> it may be because later version numbers are already in FC17 then FC18.
>>
>> 2) The worse one in my dual-booting laptop. Win7+Fedora, using grub2 
>> to chainload windows if desired.
>>  It is a somewhat convoluted system with Fedora 17 unencrypted plus a 
>> big encrypted partition.
>> I ran 'fedup' (to an iso DVD file) and got no errors. Then I hit 
>> reboot - and stuck at:
>>    File system boot sector (C) is reserved
>>    There is no OS to bot on this disk.
>> Using a rescue disk and reinstalling GRUB2 fixed the boot startup, 
>> but loading the fedup dracut then
>> times out waiting for device-mapper-luks and cannot boot. So I 
>> comment out the entry in /etc/fstab
>> But still the boot fails in the disk setup phase.  Any ideas?
>>
>>   Thanks!
>>     Bill
>>
>

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