Preupgrade fc14 to fc15 failed, kernel is not installed

GeeKer Wang wwthunan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 03:08:53 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Kevin J. Cummings <
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:

> On 06/02/2011 10:31 PM, GeeKer Wang wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings
> > <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net <mailto:cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>>
> wrote:
> >     OK, so while looking at the live system chrooted to your system, what
> is
> >     the response to:
> >
> >     rpm -q kernel
> >
> >     Let's find out if the proper kernel got installed.  If so, then we'll
> >     have a look at your /etc/grub.conf (which is just a symlink to:
> >     /boot/grub/grub.conf).  And then we'll try and figure out how to
> install
> >     it by running grubby by hand....
> >
> > There is no fc15 kernel, only
> >      kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.i686
> >      kernel-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686
> >      kernel-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686
>
> OK, so the f15 kernel never got installed.  That would bring into
> question a whole raft of other potential problems that you will probably
> need to clean uop from as well....
>
> >     Are you 100% sure that preupgrade didn't stop prematurely with some
> sort
> >     of error message?
> >
> > It halted halfway because of installing openjpeg-devel. I renamed
> > related files and preupgrade continued without other problem.
>
> Except that it seemed to miss installing the kernel....
>
> >     If it did not get installed, it should be easy enough to install one
> by
> >     hand (with RPM) and see if it installs without any errors (and
> correctly
> >     modifies your /etc/grub.conf file).  If it requires dependencies to
> >     install, then you will have other problems.
> >
> >   When I tried "rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.38.6-fc15.i686.rpm", it failed with
> > "grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template". But it created
> > some files(eg. vmlinuz-xxx-fc15, initramfs-xxx.img) in /boot and
> > /lib/modules. However, grub-install didn't recognize these files.
>
> We can always add the proper lines to /etc/grub.conf by hand if we have
> to....
>
> What is the contents of your current /etc/grub.conf file?
> What and where are the f15 kernel files?
>        (you are looking for at least a vmlinuz- file and possibly
>          an initramfs- file and possibly a System.map- file as well)
>
> I have the following on my botched f15 upgrade:
>
> /boot
>  config-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686  efi
> initramfs-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686.img  initrd-plymouth.img
>  System.map-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686  vmlinuz-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686
>  config-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686  elf-memtest86+-4.10
> initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.img  memtest86+-4.10
>  System.map-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686   vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686
>  config-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686   grub
> initramfs-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.img   System.map-2.6.35.12-90.fc14.i686
>  upgrade                            vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686
>
> and my grub.conf contains this entry for f15 (which boots for me):
>
> title Fedora (2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 ro
> root=UUID=f3299b81-9fc4-46eb-9189-a79591e894a1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
> rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM vga=0x123 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
> KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us noiswmd
>        initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686.img
>
> You will need to change the UUID to match your disk, and whether or not
> you need all of the boot options that I have, you can compare to your
> f14 kernel entries in your grub.conf file.  All of the options on my f15
> kernel line appear verbatim on my f14 kernel lines.  And my test system
> is currently booted in f15 (or some subset of it.  B^)
>
> I have these files in /boot, and I tried to revise entry in grub.conf.
Unfortunately, It complains cannot find /proc/cmdline when booting...

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> Kevin J. Cummings
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