preupgrade F15 fails

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 18:37:38 UTC 2011


On 04/18/2011 02:12 PM, sean darcy wrote:
> I ran preupgrade-cli on F14 x86-64. Everything seemed to work.
>
> grub.conf:
>
> title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
> 	kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> ks=hd:UUID=78716504-df9a-43a7-9a1c-d37c87ec1fbd:/upgrade/ks.cfg
> 	initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>
> and the UUID points to /boot
>
> But on reboot, there's a long (1-2 minute) blank screen, followed by a
> black and white checkerboard.
>
> This box has:
> AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor.
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce
> 6600] (rev a2)
>
> Not very exotic.
>
> Is this supposed to work?
>
> sean
>

Redid preupgrade-cli with --vnc. Still a messed up local screen, but I 
can get in by vnc. Seems to be working.

Let's hope X works on reboot!

sean



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