Another preupgrade disaster -

stan gryt2 at q.com
Sat Nov 21 02:01:18 UTC 2009


On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:43:36 -0500
Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:

> On 20/11/09 17:29, David Timms wrote:
> > On 11/21/2009 08:50 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >> Don't know what that means. Why does it want the "root" for the
> >> previous system?
> > The "root" in this case refers to the top level of your filesystem 
> > tree "/". It can't find it.
> >
> > Can you post: cat /boot/grub/grub.conf [root at box6 ~]# cat 
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> > #
> > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to
> > this file
> > # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> > #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> > #          root (hd0,0)
> > #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
> > root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root #
> > initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda
> > default=1
> > timeout=10
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > hiddenmenu
> > title Upgrade to Fedora 12 (Constantine)
        root (hd0,0)
> >     kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade 
> > repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade 
> > stage2=hd:UUID=09e14e02-5f2b-4e87-b2b6-4d8ffb6d7f98:/upgrade/install.img 
> > ks=hd:UUID=09e14e02-5f2b-4e87-b2b6-4d8ffb6d7f98:/upgrade/ks.cfg
> >     initrd /upgrade/initrd.img

I don't know about the rest of what you posted, but this seems to be
missing the root (hd0,0) line.  Maybe preupgrade takes it from the next
stanza???

> > title Omega 11.1 Fedora Remix (2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586)
> >     root (hd0,0)
> >     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586 ro 
> > root=/dev/mapper/vg_box6-lv_root
> >     initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i586.img




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