preupgrade, some issues

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Fri May 2 09:57:03 UTC 2008


Josep Puigdemont wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was testing preupgrade (F8->rawhide), and I hit a couple of problems:
>
> The first issues was that the hard drive units in F8 have a different
> order in F9 (at least for my HW [1]), so /dev/sda in F8 becomes /dev/sdb
> in F9, and this makes the installer complain that it doesn't find the
> upgrade images.
> I solved this changing sda6 to sdb6 in the following line
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> stage2=hd:sda6:/upgrade/minstg2.img
> If I didn't change this anaconda would ask me for the location of the
> ISO image, which seems to default to /upgrade/minstg2.img.
>
>
> With the changes mentioned above, Anaconda starts (in text mode), and
> goes on as to let me configure grub, but then it pops up the following
> error message:
> "Unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem
> with the generation of your install tree."
> I can then choose to either "exit installer" or "retry". Every time I
> hit "retry" the following error is printed on the console:
> ERROR: Error running /usr/sbin/lspci: No such file or directory
>
> I used preupgrade-0.9.2-1.fc8.
>
> /Josep
>
> [1]
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_c348ef55-d532-4197-afac-be8e3690c35e
>
>   
I've been having the same problem as your second problem. See the above 
thread "preupdate won't update". Are you also using volume groups?





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