On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 22:47:07 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:

You chose the fedup option in GRUB, but instead of getting text status of the progessing update, you got what appeared to be normal F19 boot? 

If /var is a separate partition/LV instead of on rootfs, this behavior occurs. Please post your fstab if unsure. Do you have any encrypted partitions or volumes? Please post the result of lsblk if yes.

I do not have any encrypted partitions, but /var is definitely separate:

/dev/sda3    /boot
/dev/sda5    /
/dev/sda6    /home
/dev/sda7    /var

Thanks,
Brian