Many machines have a default /boot of 200MB or even less, which currently makes it hard to complete a preupgrade. There are various things that can be done to mitigate the problems, such as: 1. Suggest the removal of all kernels that are older than the currently running kernel. 2. tune2fs -r 0 3. Do something about /boot/upgrade/install.img https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530541#c6
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This will still be a serious problem going from F12 to F13. I just did 1. Install from F12 desktop live cd 2. Update the system fully 3. Run preupgrade Result: /boot fills up, upgrade fails
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(In reply to comment #2) > This will still be a serious problem going from F12 to F13. Right but see bug 573451 and note that preupgrade still supports downloading install.img at boot time. :)
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