[CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

[Joe]

Since we last left our caped crusaders...

1. I commented out the "hiddenmenu" option in grub.conf and deleted the 
caches created by preupgrade.
2. I ran preupgrade and got it to cache everything.  When it was all done 
(right before I rebooted), I unmounted /boot and fsck'd it to make sure it 
was clean.  I left it unmounted and rebooted.
3. I still got the "unclean mount" message.
4. I reran step 2 but I rebooted using an F14 DVD.  I got up to the point 
where it asked me to designate a system disk - after I did that THEN that 
"unclean mount" message reappeared.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bryan J Smith
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 5:40 PM
To: Joe ; calug at unknownlamer.org
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Fedora upgrade unsuccessful

Understood.  I'm just wondering what Amahi is doing to Fedora 12's init
scripts.  If it's not shutting down the system properly, then of course,
Preupgrade is going to be defensive, and say, "I don't trust the system's
consistency."  So, again, I'm curious what Amahi is doing to the system.
Fedora's init shut down the system proper, even when Preupgrade program runs 
the
reboot.

One way is to boot into Fedora 12 at run-level "S", remount the file systems
read-only, do fsck, and then reboot when done.  Then boot Fedora 14 
Preupgrade
from there.  That way your file systems should be cleanly mounted.

The "boot=" line hasn't been required for some time, but Anaconda leaves it
around as a legacy comment.  And you must be seeing that menu because you
wouldn't see the Fedora 14 Preupgrade option.  Your menu has the Fedora 14
Preupgrade and two (2) kernel lines for Fedora 12.

Although do make sure /etc/grub.conf is still a symlink to
/boot/grub/grub.conf.  If you're editing/changing /etc/grub.conf and it's 
not a
symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf, that would be a problem.  The system boots
/boot/grub/grub.conf.



----- Original Message ----
From: Joe <joe_tseng at hotmail.com>
Sent: Sat, June 11, 2011 12:53:41 PM

And I was following this document:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/F12_to_F14_update

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joe
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:22 PM

For what it's worth here's my grub.conf:

$ sudo more grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_server0-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Upgrade to Fedora 14 (Laughlin)
    kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
ks=hd:UUID=706664cb-53af-4399-9f80-6554424247e9:/upgrade/ks.cfgstage2=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/install.img

    initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_server0-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
    initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_server0-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
    initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img

Now that I'm looking at it I realize I NEVER see this menu.  I would not be
surprised if Amahi disabled this.  Do I need to uncomment that "boot=..."
line?