When I tried "rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686" in chroot environment, it complains " grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template".
I guess preupgrade get the same problem and just skip the kernel install. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, GeeKer Wang <wwthu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 < > cummi...@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 >> >> -- >> Kevin J. Cummings >> kjch...@rcn.com >> cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net >> cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us >> Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> > > > > -- > Bob > -- Bob
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