F12 upgrade needs more space for /mnt/sysimage/boot
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Nov 18 07:29:01 UTC 2009
Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:39:44 -0500
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>
>
>> You have run out of space before getting to the anaconda kernel and
>> initrd. Check /boot for a preupgrade directory. It needs to copy a few
>> things into it (like the anaconda kernel and initrd, but also a
>> kickstart file, and some other things). If there is no room for the
>> necessary items, you are out of luck.
>>
>
> That's the problem. I'm 1.5mb short, according to preupgrade.
>
>
>
>> Have you tried Germán's suggestion of removing unneeded F11 kernels?
>>
>
> I have removed all but one F11 kernel (rpm -e kernel-whatever-whatever) so
> there's only one left. And as I said before, I don't see where I can remove
> anything else to gain that 1.5mb and still have a kernel that my computer can
> boot.
>
>
>> The Achilles's heel of preupgrade is the amount of free space in your
>> /boot partition.
>>
>
> Indeed. I really don't get it, because I initially formatted that computer
> with the F10 rawhide a month or so before the F10 release. And I used the
> default disk partitioning that the installer suggested.
> Kinda ironic, since
>
>
>> Can you resize your
>> partitions such that /boot has more space?
>>
>
> I have no idea how to do that. Again, I just used the default F10
> partitioning scheme and it's seemed to be working fine up to this point.
>
>
>
I may have to try this on a virtual machine.....
I've never used preupgrade before....so I don't know exactly what it
does... But, if it ends up installing the latest kernel and then
booting to it....one could try deleting the initrd file (or moving it to
a safe place where you can restore it if needed) for the active kernel
since it isn't being used once you are up....
Its a thought....certainly would like to test it on a snapshoted VM. :-)
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