Notes on attempted upgrade

[bloch at verdurin.com]

I tried to upgrade a Shuttle SN41G2 system currently running FC6.

The first problem I encountered was that anaconda didn't detect the DVD
drive - I had to load the pata_amd module manually.
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226912)

Just as the graphical stage of the installer started, there were lots of
errors like this on the console:

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py:74: Warning: 'with' will
become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6

In the end, anaconda aborted the upgrade because it couldn't mount a
partition listed in the current fstab:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226923

I also tried the new "boot from local disk" GRUB option, but it didn't
work for me:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226924

Another thing I noticed when switching back to the console to read
anaconda.log, is that I received the following warning when using
'less':

Warning: Terminal is not fully functional


Adam