Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Mon Feb 27 05:21:55 UTC 2012
I also made a typo the first time I did it also. My g4l has nano
editor, so it was just typing in the info.
I'm planning on doing an full disk image, and then trying the
grub2-install command and see if it runs ok, or has some
message. Was hoping to get some feedback first, since it will
take hours to do a full disk image of a 1TB disk.
This is my 32 bit system for the my g4l build. Still need to upgrade
my 64bit quad system to 16 as well...
On 26 Feb 2012 at 22:07, Julius Smith wrote:
Date sent: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:07:50 -0700
Subject: Re: Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.
From: Julius Smith <jos at ccrma.stanford.edu>
To: "Michael D. Setzer II"
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
Copies to: Community support for Fedora users
<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Thanks for your info - I finally punched through - here's what mine
> needed to look like:
>
> title Fedora F16
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_hostname-lv_root initrd
> /initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img
>
> where hostname is my host name. This is in fact the grub2 version
> (ported back to grub). Previously I had misread the first '_' as '-'.
> (no copy/paste in the little bash world I was struggling in)
>
> I notice that /dev/mapper/vg_hostname-lv_root is a symlink to ../dm-2
> - I hope it's ok to mount /dev/dm-2 directly - I might not have a typo
> in a name that short, and I might even remember it! :-)
>
> Since I don't need anything fancy, can I simply keep grub and not
> fight through getting grub2 to install? I'm worried that my 200 MB
> /boot/ partition is not up to the task. It causes me trouble every
> single upgrade. (I know I need to do a fresh install with a new
> partition map - I promise eventually to get around to that.)
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Julius
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
> <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> > What I put in my grub.conf file that worked is:
> >
> > title Fedora16
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686
> > root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> > initrd /initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686.img
> >
> >
> > On 26 Feb 2012 at 17:03, Julius Smith wrote:
> >
> > Date sent: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:03:19 -0800
> > Subject: Re: Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.
> > From: Julius Smith <jos at ccrma.stanford.edu> To:
> > Community support for Fedora users
> > <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> >
> >> I just did a preupgrade from F15 to F16 and fell into this trap, or
> >> something similar.
> >>
> >> From a rescue disk boot (F12 is the latest I had lying around), I
> >> can see both grub and grub2 directories in /boot. The grub2 dir
> >> looks set up, but when booting grub/grub.conf is accessed, and it
> >> points to the preupgrade "kernel" which no longer exists. I tried
> >> setting grub/grub.conf so that at least the system would boot, but
> >> I can't figure out how to set the "root=" option. Using what's in
> >> grub2 does not work, nor does any of many things I've tried (it's
> >> /dev/sda2, and presumably VolGroup00-LogVol01, but nothing like
> >> that works). So, I'm dead in the water as well.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
> >> <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> >> > I've don't a number of upgrades from Fedora 14 to 16 with no
> >> > problems, but just had a very bad issue with grub2 not working.
> >> >
> >> > Preupgrade process seemed to go fine, then rebooted.
> >> > Screen came up, but was in a very dark gray with slightly lighter
> >> > gray letters that were not very readable, but it appeared to be
> >> > processing fine, and let it run.
> >> >
> >> > After a while, it had a popup window that said something about a
> >> > bootloader with only an OK button, which I was a guessing was
> >> > that it was going to install the new bootloader, so pressed
> >> > enter.
> >> >
> >> > Machine rebooted but showed the old grub 0.97 options, which only
> >> > listed the upgrade kernel option and the link to run my g4l
> >> > kernels. The preupgrade option didn't find files, but booting
> >> > from the g4l kernel gave me access, and I could see a grub2
> >> > directory was there and so was the new kernels. I was eventually
> >> > able to get the 0.97 grub.conf to load the fedora 16 kernel and
> >> > initramfs by manually creating entry, but don't know why the
> >> > grub2 upgrade would have failed, or what the best way to get the
> >> > grub2 correctly installed?
> >> >
> >> > I have the previous 500GB disk with the Fedora 14 before the
> >> > upgrade, so can go back to it if necessary. Had to duplicate the
> >> > disk to a 1TB drive and increase the /boot since the system only
> >> > had a 200MB /boot.
> >> >
> >> > Hoping there is a simple solution?
> >> >
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Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor
Guam Community College Computer Center
mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net
mailto:msetzerii at gmail.com
http://www.guam.net/home/mikes
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
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http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original)
Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471
Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes
(Total Hours: 287,489)
BOINC at HOME CREDITS
SETI 11878212.985960 | EINSTEIN 7347240.179852
ROSETTA 4278297.373025 | ABC 11278989.077652
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