F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

linux guy linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 17:55:29 UTC 2011


Commenting those lines out causes the F14 (non upgrade) kernel to run,
thus preventing the upgrade from completing.  Which is what I am
trying to achieve.

In  case its been missed, I'm trying to upgrade from F14 to F15.

On 8/27/11, panicloop <panicloop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2011 01:00 AM, linux guy wrote:
>> Here is my grub.conf file.
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> # 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/sda2
>> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
>> #
>> boot=/dev/sda
>> default=1
>> timeout=15
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> hiddenmenu
>> title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
>> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
>> ks=hd:UUID=68c84152-0834-4e6d-b680-067752edc827:/upgrade/ks.cfg
>> initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>> title Fedora (2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE)
>>     root (hd0,0)
>>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE ro
>> root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665  verbose rhgb
>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
>> nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
>> selinux=0
>> initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE.img
>> title Fedora (2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686)
>>     root (hd0,0)
>>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686 ro
>> root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665  verbose rhgb
>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
>> nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
>> selinux=0
>> initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.img
>> =======================================================================================================
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that things are more compilcated than I thought.
> I recommend that you will backup the data to another USB disk
> and restore them after clean install of F15.
>
> I think you can boot with previous F14 kernel
> if you change the following to grub.conf
>
> [1] Change the following line
>
> default=1
> to
> default=0
>
> [2] Comment out the following 3 lines with '#'
>
> #title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
> #kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> ks=hd:UUID=68c84152-0834-4e6d-b680-067752edc827:/upgrade/ks.cfg
> #initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>
> Good luck.
>
>


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