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.
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.
I have the same problem of Stefan and I don't have a separate /boot partition.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
FWIW, I had the same path problem in preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc7.noarch when upgrading from F7 to F9.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.