F8 -> F9 preupgrade

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Hi,

I tried preupgrade without success, but at least it didn't destroy
my old installation. :-)

I started package downloads with preupgrade 0.9.3-1, then killed it
when 0.9.3-2 came out, upgraded and continued downloading.
Total download size was about 6.2 GB, I have many huge games
installed from Fedora 8 Everything. However, this version hung
at the last download phase, which was fixed by 0.9.3-3.
This version offered to reboot into upgrade finally, which I did.
It booted into anaconda upgrade, which detected my partitions correctly.
The problem that made the upgrade unsuccessful was that Anaconda
doesn't pull the network settings from my old installation and I have
an ADSL connection with a dump ADSL modem, not a router.
The GRUB boot line for preupgrade is this:

kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=hu_HU.UTF-8 keymap=hu 
stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/stage.img \
    method=http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora/linux/releases=9/Fedora/x86_64/os

Anaconda stalled at "Retrying package download" because the network
connection isn't established. Replacing the method= parameter with
method=file:///mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade
i.e. to point to the download directory gave me a Python exception
in Anaconda.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Zoltan Boszormenyi írta:
> Hi,
>
> I tried preupgrade without success, but at least it didn't destroy
> my old installation. :-)
>
> I started package downloads with preupgrade 0.9.3-1, then killed it
> when 0.9.3-2 came out, upgraded and continued downloading.
> Total download size was about 6.2 GB, I have many huge games
> installed from Fedora 8 Everything. However, this version hung
> at the last download phase, which was fixed by 0.9.3-3.
> This version offered to reboot into upgrade finally, which I did.
> It booted into anaconda upgrade, which detected my partitions correctly.
> The problem that made the upgrade unsuccessful was that Anaconda
> doesn't pull the network settings from my old installation and I have
> an ADSL connection with a dump ADSL modem, not a router.

typo, it's a "dumb" modem.
> The GRUB boot line for preupgrade is this:
>
> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=hu_HU.UTF-8 keymap=hu 
> stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/stage.img \
>    method=http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora/linux/releases=9/Fedora/x86_64/os
>
> Anaconda stalled at "Retrying package download" because the network
> connection isn't established. Replacing the method= parameter with
> method=file:///mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade
> i.e. to point to the download directory gave me a Python exception
> in Anaconda.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi

[Klaasjan Brand]

2008/5/14 Zoltan Boszormenyi :
> Hi,
>
> I tried preupgrade without success, but at least it didn't destroy
> my old installation. :-)
>
> I started package downloads with preupgrade 0.9.3-1, then killed it
> when 0.9.3-2 came out, upgraded and continued downloading.
> Total download size was about 6.2 GB, I have many huge games
> installed from Fedora 8 Everything. However, this version hung
> at the last download phase, which was fixed by 0.9.3-3.

I think it has something to do with preupgrade looking for a ".treeinfo"
file, which wasn't available on my mirror. I've fixed it by pointing the
preupgrade configuration to a mirrorsite that had the treeinfo file.
> This version offered to reboot into upgrade finally, which I did.
> It booted into anaconda upgrade, which detected my partitions correctly.
> The problem that made the upgrade unsuccessful was that Anaconda
> doesn't pull the network settings from my old installation and I have
> an ADSL connection with a dump ADSL modem, not a router.

Does anaconda need an internet connection after preupgrade has downloaded
all the relevant files for your upgrade?

Another small bug I've found which could be handled better is that the
kernel from Fedora 9 swapped my sda and sdb disks (I've got a SATA and an
IDE disk in my system), and anaconda isn't able to find the stage2 image
(there's a prompt asking for the correct disk, but none of the options
work).

Kj

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Klaasjan Brand írta:
> 2008/5/14 Zoltan Boszormenyi <[e-mail] 
> >:
> Hi,
>
> I tried preupgrade without success, but at least it didn't destroy
> my old installation. :-)
>
> I started package downloads with preupgrade 0.9.3-1, then killed it
> when 0.9.3-2 came out, upgraded and continued downloading.
> Total download size was about 6.2 GB, I have many huge games
> installed from Fedora 8 Everything. However, this version hung
> at the last download phase, which was fixed by 0.9.3-3.
>
>
> I think it has something to do with preupgrade looking for a 
> ".treeinfo" file, which wasn't available on my mirror. I've fixed it 
> by pointing the preupgrade configuration to a mirrorsite that had the 
> treeinfo file.
> This version offered to reboot into upgrade finally, which I did.
> It booted into anaconda upgrade, which detected my partitions
> correctly.
> The problem that made the upgrade unsuccessful was that Anaconda
> doesn't pull the network settings from my old installation and I have
> an ADSL connection with a dump ADSL modem, not a router.
>
>
> Does anaconda need an internet connection after preupgrade has 
> downloaded all the relevant files for your upgrade?

What else would the "Retrying package download" message indicate?
I have many packages installed from both Fedora Everything and Livna.
> Another small bug I've found which could be handled better is that the 
> kernel from Fedora 9 swapped my sda and sdb disks (I've got a SATA and 
> an IDE disk in my system), and anaconda isn't able to find the stage2 
> image (there's a prompt asking for the correct disk, but none of the 
> options work).
>
> Kj

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

<snip>
> Another small bug I've found which could be handled better is that the 
> kernel from Fedora 9 swapped my sda and sdb disks (I've got a SATA and 
> an IDE disk in my system), and anaconda isn't able to find the stage2 
> image (there's a prompt asking for the correct disk, but none of the 
> options work).
>
> Kj

</snip>

Had experienced the similar problem with externally usb connected HD ( 
#445650 )
The line that Preupgrade added to grub.conf marked stage2 on sdb while 
anaconda search for it on sdc
Try changing the stage2 line in grub to sdb or visa versa and see if you 
get further.

Either this is an anaconda problem or preupgrade. ( My money's on anaconda )
I think one way to solve this is for preupgrade to do some check to
to take into account for external/extra HD and adjust the grub entry 
appropriately to "match"
what anaconda might thinking it to be..
sda becomes sdb, sdb becomes sdc etc.

Best regards.
                   Johann B.

[Chris Lumens]

> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=hu_HU.UTF-8 keymap=hu 
> stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/stage.img \
>    method=http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora/linux/releases=9/Fedora/x86_64/os

You shouldn't even need a method= parameter here.  anaconda is smart
enough to know you're using preupgrade and will look in the right place.
So try removing it from your boot config and see what happens.

- Chris

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Chris Lumens wrote:
> > kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=hu_HU.UTF-8 keymap=hu 
> > stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/stage.img \
> >    method=http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora/linux/releases=9/Fedora/x86_64/os
>
> You shouldn't even need a method= parameter here.  anaconda is smart
> enough to know you're using preupgrade and will look in the right place.
> So try removing it from your boot config and see what happens.
> Chris

Hum I think this line is there for a dependency check, as in package can 
be fetch from a
mirror if it runs into trouble if not then it's a bug that the "method" 
entry is added if not needed..

I experienced one time while testing preupgrade that it needed and tried 
to fetch the package
online ( there also seemed to be missing some sanity check on network 
connection before it tried to fetch the
package in anaconda. it hanged for to long time before ui window which 
allowed me to set the network connection popped up).

Been awhile since I tested preupgrade so it might be fixed..

JB..

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Chris Lumens írta:
> > kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=hu_HU.UTF-8 keymap=hu 
> > stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/stage.img \
> >    method=http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora/linux/releases=9/Fedora/x86_64/os
>
> You shouldn't even need a method= parameter here.  anaconda is smart
> enough to know you're using preupgrade and will look in the right place.
> So try removing it from your boot config and see what happens.
> Chris

It didn't work. Now I got a dialog "Missing ISO 9660 image" telling
"The installer tried to mount image #1 but cannot find it on the hard 
drive ..."

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi