preupgrade from F15 to F16 : "Error 15 : File not found"
hello,
I was going to put this under the Fedora distro list but I have a feeling it might be a more general grub related issue. would appreciate some guidance please on this issue if possible. Performed preupgrade from f15 to f16 on a toshiba satellite pro laptop. All seemed to go fine and the system rebooted. Looks like the new shell is running as it gave me a new looking login prompt and screen background. However then I checked the kernel and saw that the f15 kernel version was actually running. I then rebooted and saw that "Upgrade to fedare16 (verne) was an option on the boot list along with the older linux kernels and windows xp. But it has defaulted to the latest f15 kernel I had. I then tried the f16 verne and immediately got: Error 15 : File not found Press any key to continue and it gives back the grub menu list with the options again. Here is the grub menu list: Code:
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The error makes sense in that I guess its looking for kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=117ae55c-20d6-4fe7-af15-5c96853839b6:/upgrade/ks.cfg initrd /upgrade/initrd.img but I could not find them on my system after the preupgrade. Would really appreciate some guidance. thanks. |
I'd say the upgrade was incomplete .. does /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz still exist? .. if not just start again.
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Thanks for reply. Strange thing is that it seemed to complete fine. That dir, the upgrade dir, is not present though. But I even have the new f16 wall paper. When you say try over, I presume you mean simply perform the pre upgrade command again. I will try assuming nothing else has to be done at this point. Thanks.
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If everything looks ok then just clean up /boot/grub/menu.lst to remove the upgrade entry.
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Go look at the "Common Problems" on the fedoraproject site.
Consider yourself lucky you only have one disk. At this reboot you should probably be booting grub2 - have you got a sane grub.cfg under /boot/grub2 ?. I did similar yesterday. Got around this, then fell into the caribou problem on x_64, then gnome-shell, ... I'll be doing a full (clean) install tonight - as I have tended to do in the past. Did one pre-upgrade; it worked, I got cocky. Tried again, and of course, it all went to hell in a hand-basket. Live and learn ... |
So I ran the preupgrade again, but this time it says no releases available to upgrade.
Guess that makes sense, since it has already ran thru the f16 upgrade. (even though kbp suggests it may not have completed) In my /boot dir there is a grub and grub2 directory. In grub2, there is a grub.cfg but it is empty. In /boot, there is no upgrade directory. However there is a vmlinuz-3.1.2-1.fc16.i686 file and initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.i686.img file (along with the older fc15 stuff) Code:
[root@moore0 boot]# ls -lrt First time using the preupgrade too so a bit lost. Should I just bite the bullet and do a full install? Its a 64 bits system but using 32 bit OS so I wouldnt have the typical issues associated with 64 bit install. thanks for replies. |
To be honest, this F16 preupgrade just seems a (bigger) mess.
As I said, I've given up on it - my system is such a schemozzle now. I have a separate /home partition - it may be worth you while doing likewise. Note the change in base uid/gid with F16, so trying to use a common /home will get "interesting" especially if you try to fallback to F15. Note my sigline. |
your experienced opinion is good enough for me.
I'm going to leave it for now and may perform a full clean install at some stage later when I have the time. thanks for your input. |
Found the problem, it just happened to me as well ... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug...iple&id=751131
Preupgrade didn't handle the grub -> grub2 migration gracefully, /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is created blank. Try the following :- Code:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |
that seemed to work sweet.
I'm up and running now and hopefully it will remain that way. thanks ever so much! |
And just as a clean-up note ...
My system was completely toast. I tried recoveries, rebuilds, finally a re-install over the top. Even then the grub install fsck'd up. The Fedora devs have excelled themselves this time. It's now working, but no help to them. |
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