Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 505078
preupgrade does not handle "/" on an Logical volume with multi-boot system
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:09:47 EST
Description of problem: I have a new system with two 500GB SATA drives. I first installed a "small" F10 system which I will use as a "boot" director for a multiboot system ... if I have a working system, I don't like to upgrade it because of the possibilty that I could end up with a screwed up system. Therefore, I generally do fresh installed for new versions of Fedora and use the "boot director" to select which system I actually run. The two SATA drives also have a new (for me) disk layout. I have the "boot director" system on sda1, swap is on sda2, there are four "/boot" partitions on sda5, sda6, sdb5, and sdb6. The remainder of the two disks are given to a single volume group. In the volume group, I have four root stripped logical volumes defined: root1, root2, root3, and root as well as a common /home logical volume. Because I was having problems installing F11 from DVD+network, I installed Fedora 10 on "/boot"=sda5 and "/"=root1. It installed and booted up with no problems. The F10 system was installed with updates so no additional updating was necessary. I then ran "preupgrade" which seemed to do its job. But, upon reboot to do the upgrade, the upgrade hung. Switching to VT2 to look around, I see that none of the downloaded packages are showing up. Looking a little further, I found that /dev/sda1 had been mounted rather than /dev/VG/root1. Upon further investigation, I found that preupgrade had used the WRONG UUID in the grub entry for the upgrade ... it used the UUID for /dev/sda1 (a valid F10 system) rather than the UUID of /dev/VG/root1 I have not done it yet but I suspect that if I change the UUID in the grup entry so it points to the correct logical volume, everything should work. Any additional data you need?
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