I finally decided to update my main home computer to F18. It was F16 so I had to use preupgrade to go to F17. After several reboots it is up, sort-of, on the F16 kernel. I have had the following problems.
1) Preupgrade crashed due to moodle -- removed and update proceeded.
2) After update, I still saw option for update to F17 in Grub and none of the other kernels would boot (other than dracut errors). I did the F17 update again and it seemed to fix Grub. However....
3) I now have options for: 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 -- booting this sends me to a command prompt in dracut 3.6.11-1.fc16.x86_64 -- this boots but has issues
I am currently running the mostly-updated system with the F16 kernel 3.6.11-1.fc16.x86_64. I can not run YUM so I can't even attempt to try going to F18 (unless I manually get the RPMs...).
Any idea on how I can fix YUM?
# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
# yum update Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora/16/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
Any idea how I can fix grub to boot into the F17 kernel?
Should I just punt and load F18 (keeping my partitions /home, /data, etc.)?
I have several other computers I plan on updating this weekend. I may just have to reload each of them....
Thanks, -- Wade Hampton