Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 446550
Not enough space in /boot/upgrade to cache stage2.img
Last modified: 2008-05-23 12:38:55 EDT
Description of problem: [Philip@f8 boot]$ sudo preupgrade Loading "priorities" plugin No package matched to remove Not enough space in /boot/upgrade to cache stage2.img. It will be downloaded once the installer starts. DEBUG /sbin/grubby --title="Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur)" --add-kernel=/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz --initrd=/boot/upgrade/initrd.img --args="preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us method=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os" Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. [Philip@f8 boot]$ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Try to upgrade from F8 to F9 Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: No warning provided until after the fact. If I try the upgrade it expects knowledge of NFS/URL/DVD/VD/Disk image locations. I have none of this info because I am expecting preupgrade to have it. Removed old kernel images etc. but still not enough space. Looks like I have to play with some partition manager (but I am using a vol group) How much space is needed? Could the image not be loaded to some other location? There is enough space on the other partitions. Additional info:
No response on this. FYI here is the setup of boot partition: [Philip@f8 upgrade]$ pwd /boot/upgrade [Philip@f8 upgrade]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 12G 6.1G 4.8G 57% / /dev/sda1 99M 30M 64M 32% /boot tmpfs 189M 12K 189M 1% /dev/shm [Philip@f8 upgrade]$
I have run this a few times and noticed that it messes up the grub.conf file. Multiple references to "title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur)" e.g.: [Philip@f8 grub]$ sudo cat grub.conf Password: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.24.7-92.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24.7-92.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.24.7-92.fc8.img title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us method=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os initrd /upgrade/initrd.img title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us method=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os initrd /upgrade/initrd.img title Upgrade to Fedora 9 (Sulphur) kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us method=http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os initrd /upgrade/initrd.img title Fedora (2.6.24.5-85.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24.5-85.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.24.5-85.fc8.img [Philip@f8 grub]$
It needs ~120MB for installer images. No, it can't be put on another partition - it needs to be on a partition that GRUB / anaconda stage1 can read. Which means no LVM, among other things. Yes, we know it adds new junk to grub.conf every time it runs. Normally you only run it once, and it gets cleaned out when you finish your upgrade. You shouldn't need URL/NFS image location info - that's what 'method=XXX' specifies. Not sure why anaconda would ask you that. You will need to configure a wired network interface after rebooting to download stage2.img and complete the upgrade. If you can't do that, and you can't create a bigger /boot partition, you probably won't be able to run preupgrade at this time. The next version of preupgrade makes that much clearer (and checks for disk space on /boot before downloading all the packages).