Preupgrade fc14 to fc15 failed, kernel is not installed

[GeeKer Wang]

Hello, Kevin

I can't enter my system now, however,  I check the upgraded system using
livecd.
After login in my system by chroot in livecd, by checking "rpm -qa |grep
fc15 ",  I am sure that many fc15 packages have installed.
And all the 3 steps you mentioned have passed, which takes a couple of
hours. So at least most fc15 packages have installed.

I just found a empty upgrade directory in /boot, and nothing related to fc15
there. I guess preupgrade must forget to install kernel.
So what I should do to rescue it is to upgrade/install kernel in chroot
environment. But I don't know how to upgrade  kernel with a kernel RPM file.
Any advice?

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:

> On 06/02/2011 10:13 AM, GeeKer Wang wrote:
> > Hello, guys,
> >      I used preupgrade to upgrade  fc14 to fc15, and everything seemed
> > fine. But when I reboot, I just find that kernel-fc15 is not installed.
>
> I can't tell from what you written above, but, pre-upgrade is a multi
> step process.  Here are the steps in a nut-shell:
>
> 1) run preupgrade and have it download packages to a local repository on
> your machine.  It should also modify your /etc/grub.conf file to add an
> entry which will continue the upgrade in step 2.  When this step
> completes, it should ask you to reboot your computer.
>
> 2) when you reboot, it should automatically select the F15 upgrade entry
> and boot into the second stage installer and start installing the
> downloaded packages on to your system.  This is the step that fails for
> many people.  Places to look for problems are in /etc/grub.conf and in
> /boot/upgrade/.  In the latter you should have at least 3 files:
> initrd.img, ks.cfg, and vmlinuz.  If not, something else has gone wrong
> for you to look into.  If everything goes right, when the packages are
> finished installing (and yet another change is made to your
> /etc/grub.conf file), the system will reboot yet again....
>
> 3) The final reboot will run a script called firstboot which should
> clean up from the upgrade process, and remove the old kernel versions
> from your system.  It will also check to make sure that any new packages
> are configured properly (or prompt you for their configuration)
> so that F15 will run correctly for you upon subsequent reboots.  If you
> get this far, preupgrade has done its job correctly and you should be
> all set.
>
> > There are no vmlinuz-xxx.fc15.i686 and initramfs-xxxx-fc15.i686.img in
> > /boot, no entry about fc-15 written in grub.conf, and nothing related to
> > fc15 is found in /lib/modules.
> >
> > I just try to download kernel and install it manually. But I don't know
> > whether there are any other packages forgotten.
>
> What does "rpm -qa | grep fc15" tell you?  (there should be *lots* of
> hits).
>
> If it can't find any fc15 packages installed, you haven't upgraded yet.
>
> > --
> > Bob
>
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Bob
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