Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Will Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 17:40 +0000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
>   
>> seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>>     
>>> good, but I need to make sure that error gets caught properly.
>>>       
>> True at least to show a pop up or something because when it happens, the
>> application just hangs (and killing the gui leaves a python process running).
>>
>> In the end, preupgrade downloaded 1.5 GB worth of packages and I rebooted to
>> start the upgrade.  Sadly anaconda crashes right away (SIGSEV), looks like it's
>> having problem with stage2 because it claims in cannot 'find an ext2 filesystem
>> on dev loop0' right after trying to mount it as an isofs image (file tells me
>> minstg2.img is a squashfs image):
>> minstg2.img: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.1, 60449651 bytes,
>> 10107 inodes, blocksize: 131072 bytes, created: Wed Mar 19 19:00:09 2008
>>
>> Here's what my grub.conf looks like:
>> title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Beta
>>         kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us
>> stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/minstg2.img
>> method=http://fedora.mirror.facebook.com/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/i386/os
>>         initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
>>     
>
> Ah. Upgrading to Beta might not work. Try upgrading to Rawhide instead. 
>
> Rawhide is basically the Preview Release right now, and it's got a much
> newer Anaconda that has fixes for a bunch of these problems.
>
> You might want to clear out the caches first, just to be 100% sure:
>   rm -rf /var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade /boot/upgrade
>
> -w
>   
Does not work.....

Correct path to images are not set in grub entry nor
does manually changing the path to the correct one in grub fix the issue 
that
it cant mount/read the image...


JB
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