On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Kevin J. Cummings < cummi...@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 > > <cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net <mailto:cummi...@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... > -- > 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
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