On 09/18/2012 09:55 AM, bha...@bhanks.net wrote:
Message: 7
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:35:58 +0200
From: Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Cc: bha...@bhanks.net
Subject: Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut
Shell
Message-ID: <5057354e....@thelounge.net>
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why in the world are you not doing the upgrade with yum?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17
preupgrade is a blackbox with success or fail (often fail)
after a yum upgrade you can verify and fix any boot-config
I normally don't use Preugrade. The Warning message on the page that
you have linked above is what influenced my decision to use
PreUpgrade. It says "Warning: There is a general warning about
upgrading via. yum being unsupported at the top of this page. However
Fedora 17 is very special. You should seriously consider stopping now
and just using anaconda via. DVD or preupgrade, unlike all previous
releases it's what the yum/rpm developers recommend. Continue at your
own risk." This comment makes it seem like PreUpgrade is a better
option.
So, now that I've chosen this road, I am certainly wishing that I
would have just done a fresh install and that's likely where I will
end up. I've solved the dracut problem with the following steps:
1. grub2-mkconfig
2. Modify /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to remove all UUID references and
replaced with device refs (/dev/sdax). I'm not sure why but the UUIDs
were confusing dracut. They were correct, but no matter what I tried
it would not work.
3. dracut
4. Reboot
I can now boot up to the point where the NVIDIA driver loads. This
fails because it still has the FC16 variant installed. I've tried to
remove and reinstall the FC17 version, but it's not working. Grub
seems to have a $releasever reference to FC16. Odd given that
/etc/fedora-realease and every other reference is to FC17. I'm going
to try to fix this tonight. If I can't get it working, I'm just going
to backup my data and do a fresh install.
Brian
Which to me....sounds like the better option! If you have to go through
all_those_ hoops just to get it up & running, then maybe a fresh install
IS the way to go!?....just my two cents. (I had MAJOR problems going
from F14 to F15....and after almost 20 attempts I just gave in and took
all my data off the bloody machine.....dumped it into a desktop, and
then did a fresh install to F15....the funny thing is......I dared to
use PreUpgrade going from F15 to F16....and it worked flawlessly!....the
same thing when it came to going from F16 to F17.....I would HOPE that
they've ironed out enough of the kinks so that I can go from F17 to F18
without a problem!) But I think the older my laptop gets the harder it
might be to go from version to version easily....just my assumptions
mind you...I have no concrete proof on it.
EGO II
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