Preupgrade F10 to rawhide. Kernel panic (Revised)
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Apr 12 13:20:32 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 08:12 +0930, dp wrote:
> I didn't get a response yet, so perhaps I should have given more
> detail, as below.
> I ran the above preupgrade, and all seemed well,
> although I did the download in two sessions as it took a long time,
> until the reboot at the end. Then it stopped at:
>
> Write Protecting the Kernel read only date 1440k
> Failed to execute /init
> Kernel Panic not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=
> option to kernel.
>
> It had inserted the following info in grub.conf:
>
> title Upgrade to Rawhide
> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=22c9c075
> -aae8-4499-a275-1ed321adafa3:/upgrade/install.img ks=hd:UUID=22c9c075-aae8-4499-a275-1ed321adafa3:/upgrade/ks.cfg
>
>
>
> I don't think there is a /init as such, so I don't know what I
> should do.
> Google didn't seem to help me, so any help appreciated!
>
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you really should be asking Fedora-test list
I don't know that it matters but I did have to install syslinux from
rawhide first in order to make the USB key installer and I would suspect
that might have been necessary to use preupgrade but I really don't
know.
Craig
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