Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-18 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
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 To: Community support for Fedora users Cc: bha...@bhanks.net Subject: Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell Message-ID: <50

Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-18 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 17/09/12 15:35, Reindl Harald typed ... 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 That very link leads straight to: There is a general warning about upgrading via. yum being unsuppo

Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-18 Thread bhanks
Message: 7 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:35:58 +0200 From: Reindl Harald To: Community support for Fedora users Cc: bha...@bhanks.net Subject: Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell Message-ID: <5057354e@thelounge.net> Content-Type: text/plain

Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-17 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 17.09.2012 16:30, schrieb bha...@bhanks.net: > I delayed the upgrade of my main Fedora machine after reading all of the > issues that were happening with the > preupgrade process. I've done several fresh installs without issue, so I > suspected that my delay would have > provided enough tim

Re: Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut > Shell (Neil Bird)

2012-09-17 Thread bhanks
>I had grub issues after an upgrade (DVD-based, though), and mine was down (among *many* other things) to a stuffed /boot/grub2/device.map, which I then had to re-create from grub2-mkdevicemap (all done from a recovery-boot off an install DVD, chroot'ed into /mnt/sysimage). I learnt (&

Re: F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-17 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 17/09/12 15:30, bha...@bhanks.net typed ... I've searched all over and not found any reference to this exact problem. Any ideas? I had grub issues after an upgrade (DVD-based, though), and mine was down (among *many* other things) to a stuffed /boot/grub2/device.map, which I t

F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut Shell

2012-09-17 Thread bhanks
I delayed the upgrade of my main Fedora machine after reading all of the issues that were happening with the preupgrade process. I've done several fresh installs without issue, so I suspected that my delay would have provided enough time for the preupgrade issues to be worked out. I was wrong

Re: F17 preupgrade

2012-06-01 Thread Gianluca Sforna
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:44 PM, jarmo wrote: > When closing comp kernel panic, again > can't produce message here, but remember, that can't find shutdown.sh > script was one of messages... Ok, so I think I just went through this same path yesterday. I noticed the upgrade did not correctly set t

Re: F17 preupgrade

2012-05-30 Thread jarmo
Wed, 30 May 2012 18:12:13 +0200 suvayu ali kirjoitti: > If copying text to the email is not possible, you could take a picture > with a camera and put it up on some service like imagebin and link > from your email. In short, more information helps, just complaining > doesn't. > > GL > I sure b

Re: F17 preupgrade

2012-05-30 Thread suvayu ali
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:44 PM, jarmo wrote: > If you do distro for people, make sure u understand, that > persons like me, 60 old want to use it. I realise it can be difficult to do things precisely with age, but still I would like to say if you want help with your issue, you need to provide co

F17 preupgrade

2012-05-30 Thread jarmo
First, preupgrade-cli does not work, stops in some .py stuff. Can't get info, b'cause another comp. No problem, pure preupgrade went smoothly trough, new 17 all ok, so far. When closing comp kernel panic, again can't produce message here, but remember, that can't find shutdown.sh script was one of

Re: F17 preupgrade with efi?

2012-05-30 Thread Christian Menzel
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012, Alan Cox wrote: > > So my question is: Is preupgrade supported on efi systems or should I > just > > use yum to upgrade to F17? > > You don't have that option either really because of the great > rearrangement of /bin and /usr/bin etc. > > Alan > Thank you, I will star

Re: F17 preupgrade with efi?

2012-05-30 Thread Alan Cox
> So my question is: Is preupgrade supported on efi systems or should I just > use yum to upgrade to F17? You don't have that option either really because of the great rearrangement of /bin and /usr/bin etc. Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

F17 preupgrade with efi?

2012-05-30 Thread Christian Menzel
Hi, I have a ThinkPad X220 with F16 booting with efi, so my grub.conf is located in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf. But preupgrade makes changes to /boot/grub2/grub.cfg which (of course) is not taken into account while booting. I have not found any parameter to tell preupgrade that it's working o