Today, I tried to upgrade my F14 test machine to F15.
Machine in question: HP Pavilion 7490 desktop
PIII w/512MB ram.
Intel (something old) graphics
1st, I downloaded and burned (to a CD-R) the Live Desktop i686 CD.
It boots in the CD drive and runs (in fallback mode).
I got my first look at Gnome 3. (oh boy)
2nd, I downloaded and burned the i386 install DVD to a DVD+RW.
When I tried to boot it (from the machines DVD drive) it
failed to boot. Strange as the CD boots from the CD drive.
(I'm about to try my x86_64 install DVD in this laptop just to
see if its a problem booting from DVD+RW disks....)
3rd, I ran preupgrade, which sat and churned, and downloaded a bunch of
packages, then announced it was ready to reboot. When I
rebooted, and selected the Upgrade to F15 entry, all I got was
a blinking flat cursor in the upper left of my monitor.
Nothing happens after that point. I can give the 3-fingered
salute to reboot the machine, and I can select one of the 3
installed F14 kernels and the machine will reboot (into F14).
Here are the grub entries for the pre-upgrade and F14:
> title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
> kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade
> repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> ks=hd:UUID=f3299b81-9fc4-46eb-9189-a79591e894a1:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg
> initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img
>
> title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686 ro
> root=UUID=f3299b81-9fc4-46eb-9189-a79591e894a1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD
> rd_NO_DM vga=0x123 LANG=e
> n_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us noiswmd
> initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.img
The other 2 F14 grub entries are similar to the one above.
Can someone tell me what's wrong with the F15 upgrade entry (why won't
it boot?) I've tried adding a root grub directive and a root= kernel
parameter entry, and neither of those changes makes a difference....
Do I need to add something? Do I need to change something?
As I look at the 3 files in /boot/upgrade, they are all chmod 644. As I
look at the kernel images in /boot, they are all chmod 755. Should the
/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz file be changed to 755?
Inquiring minds want to know why preupgrade won't work for me!
Thanks for any/all advice!
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Kevin J. Cummings
kjch...@verizon.net
cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net
cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
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