Preupgrade fc14 to fc15 failed, kernel is not installed

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 06/02/2011 11:08 PM, GeeKer Wang wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Kevin J. Cummings
> <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net <mailto:cummings at kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote:
>     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

I hate wrapping in email programs!  Everything on your kernel line 
appears on ONE LINE, right?  Not wrapped as it appears above?

>     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...

Exact error message please.

The /proc filesystem doesn't get mounted until sometime after the booted 
kernel gets running.  Why is there a reference to it when booting. 
Originally I thought it might be some reference in your initramfs image, 
but now I'm not so sure.

Exactly when does this message occur?  Have you removed the "quiet" and 
"rhgb" options from your kernel line in grub?  Its nice to know exactly 
what's going on during the boot process when messages like that appear. 
  How far into the kernel boot process do you actually get?

Please describe in great detail.  B^)  Ideally I'd like to be there next 
to you so I can see for myself.  The next best thing would be to capture 
it in video and post a link to the .mpg file.  Its not more than a few 
seconds long, right?  B^)   B^)

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
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cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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