Bug 446245

Summary: Wrong path for stage2 in grub.conf
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stefan Neufeind <redhat>
Component: preupgradeAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: ahabig, katzj, nsoranzo, wwoods
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Description Stefan Neufeind 2008-05-13 17:49:42 UTC
Used preupgrade from "updates-testing" Fedora8 to upgrade to Fedora 9. Worked
almost fine (added repo-URLs manually etc.). But for me a grub.conf-entry was
created which included:

  stage2=hd:sda5:boot/upgrade/stage2.img

Upon booting it was unable to find it's stage2-image. An output of the actually
URL used showed that the path needed another slash before "boot" - either in the
setting or at the place where that path was appended to the "mount-point".

Adding a slash in to get hd:sda5:/boot/... fixed the problem for me. Either way:
Seems we're missing a slash - in one or the other place.

Comment 1 Will Woods 2008-05-14 16:06:06 UTC
This might be the same as https://fedorahosted.org/preupgrade/ticket/19 - do you
have a separate /boot partition? If not, then it's probably the same thing.

Comment 2 Nicola Soranzo 2008-05-14 16:53:04 UTC
I have the same problem of Stefan and I don't have a separate /boot partition.

Comment 3 Will Woods 2008-05-14 17:36:35 UTC
Okay, probably the same thing. I'm setting up a test machine now and hope to
have a fix by the end of the day.

Comment 4 Stefan Neufeind 2008-05-14 19:55:41 UTC
I don't have a separate boot-partition, it's part of /root. And yes, the
error-message Will pointed to looks familiar to me :-) So I guess that's the
issue we're talking about.

Comment 5 Will Woods 2008-05-14 22:23:01 UTC
Should be fixed in bzr rev 129. Tested, and it works for me. If you want to
confirm, you can pull down a copy of the bzr repo:
  bzr clone bzr://bzr.fedoraproject.org/bzr/preupgrade/dev preupgrade
  cd preupgrade
  ./preupgrade-gtk.py
or wait for the next preupgrade build.

Comment 6 Habig, Alec 2008-06-19 17:12:58 UTC
A suggestion - it's a month later and I was just bit by this bug, which would be
a showstopper for anyone who doesn't know how to root around in bugzilla. 
Pushing the fixed version through koji/bodhi (for F-8, F-9, devel) is pretty
easy and will certainly save some people out there a nasty surprise!

I'd imagine that there's a pretty sizeable bulge of people upgrading now (a
month after the F-9 release, everyone who wanted to wait for things to settle
before upgrading production machines).  Could you please push the fixed version?
 Thanks on behalf of all the yet-to-be-crashed users out there :)


Comment 7 Andrew Ziem 2008-06-24 13:57:33 UTC
FWIW, I had the same path problem in preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc7.noarch when
upgrading from F7 to F9.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-10-02 23:04:02 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc9

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-10-02 23:04:05 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc8

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-10-03 22:28:36 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8545

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-10-03 22:32:01 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8576

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-10-23 16:36:45 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8545

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-10-23 16:40:02 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.8-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8576

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2008-11-12 02:58:20 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8576

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2008-11-12 02:59:21 UTC
preupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update preupgrade'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8545

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 23:49:05 UTC
preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc10

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2008-11-26 06:12:36 UTC
preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2008-11-26 06:13:35 UTC
preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2008-11-26 06:22:04 UTC
preupgrade-1.0.0-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.