preupgrade F15 fails

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 14:37 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> 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!

You could also start preupgrade with basic video graphics by adding boot
options "xdriver=vesa nomodeset".  It's likely something with your video
hardware, and not a bug in preupgrade.

Additional items to consider if X continues to not work post-upgrade ...
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Xorg_problems

Thanks,
James
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