Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 505667
Fedora 11 fails to boot after preupgrade from Fedora 10 - GRUB chainloading or ZFS issue?
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:09:48 EST
Description of problem: Reboot after preupgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 fails, with Fedora (GRUB) in unusable state. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): latest available on Fedora 10 How reproducible: first preupgrade attempt - 1/1 failed boot fails reproducibly 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. install preupgrade through add/remove packages app 2. $ su 3. # preupgrade & 4. select Fedora 11 Actual results: - console mentioned unresolved dependency libcrypto.so.7 - downloads packages and prompts to reboot - on boot, prints "GRUB " in white letters on black background and does nothing further - reboot is possible via Ctrl+Alt+Del Expected results: - show graphical GRUB boot menu - boot up Fedora 11 Additional info: System has OpenSolaris' (ZFS-based) GRUB in boot sector Fedora's GRUB is chain-loaded from secondary ext3 partition OpenSolaris' GRUB is unaffected, Fedora's is broken
In rescue mode, `grub` says: Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,1)".... failed I do get to some GRUB prompt then, but due to lack of ext2 fs support it's pretty useless as well. # md5sum /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 c5265e6de4a3da44be2010dd4a1e1fea /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 Leonidas installation was configured in grub.conf, except for a missing "root (hd0,1)" line.
I had the same problem today, so couldn't reboot after preupgrade was ran. Need reinstall grub to boot again. Moreover it can be confusing (especially for end users) that you need press enter on boot to select 'Upgrade to F11 - otherwise, F10 will be booted by default and upgrade will be done. Reference bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496952
Just fix typo above, the sentence should be ...'Upgrade to F11' - otherwise, F10 will be booted by default and NO upgrade will be done.
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