Another kernel panic after preupgrade

stan gryt2 at q.com
Thu Nov 11 19:41:47 UTC 2010


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:50:21 +0100
oekopez at gmx.de wrote:


> The old F13 kernel, which are booting partly but failing with some
> graphic card problems include root hd(0,0), also. 

If the old root was hd(0,0) then preupgrade should leave your root
as hd(0,0).

If you follow Joe's suggestion about running fdisk from a live CD, can
you also show the contents of your /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab.

> After reboot the
> upgrade process failed upgrading one package

I interpret this a meaning that all the packages were downloaded, but
after it asked you to reboot and you did, it started the upgrade but
failed part way through.

This is a likely cause of your problem.  Do you remember the package
that failed? Or any error message preupgrade might have printed at the
time of failure?  It sounds like your system was in the middle of
upgrading and hung. Is that true?  If that is the case, it gives a
reason for your problem. Is it possible you ran out of disk space for
the upgrade?  It takes almost twice as much room because it has to
store two versions of everything before upgrading.


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