+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #504826 +++ Preupgrade complains: Error: /boot is on RAID device md0 On this system, md0 is simply level 1 (mirror) though so the complaint is invalid. Sure, if the RAID level was 0 or 5 or 6, etc. then fair enough, but in level 1 any of the mirrored partitions can simply be read on it's own without any knowledge of RAID. This is clearly the case, or GRUB would never be able to boot this system in the first place.
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This is still an issue, not sure why it's in [NEEDINFO] mode. I believe the authors are aware of the issue. Maybe that was an accident.
hi i have the same problem on an maschine with f13 that i would to preupgrade to f14. what infos are needed?
I think this is basically the same bug as 500004
For me this looks more like Bug 504826 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 800, in <module> widgets = PreUpgradeGtk() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 396, in __init__ self._do_main() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 278, in _do_main self.main_preupgrade() File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 497, in main_preupgrade extra_args += " ks=%s" % self.pu.generate_kickstart() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 601, in generate_kickstart return dev.bootpath_to_anacondapath(targetfile, UUID=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/dev.py", line 91, in bootpath_to_anacondapath raise PUError, "/boot is on RAID device %s" % bootdev preupgrade.error.PUError: /boot is on RAID device md0
This does match Bug 504826, has been here a long, long time. However, as Robin Rainton states above, a RAID-1 disk can be read off either disk partition of the pair. So, if you cannot fix it in Anaconda, perhaps a bit more guidance would be in order? I could copy the contents to another directory (/saveboot)...just in case. I would then unmount and tear down the RAID array, re-mount one partition of the pair as /boot, and restart preupgrade, but this seems a bit excessive.
I have the same problem upgrading F13 to F15. Since it is not clear why this bug has NEEDINFO at all (see comment #2), I am clearing NEEDINFO. Maintainers, ask for details explicitly if needed.
The problem is still present when trying to update from F15 to F16: # preupgrade-cli "Fedora 16 (Verne)" Loaded plugins: blacklist, fastestmirror, langpacks, whiteout No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-16&arch=$basearch now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64 Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * fedora: fedora.inode.at * updates: ftp.uni-erlangen.de preupgrade (mirrorlist) url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/ now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os/ Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-main: fedora.inode.at preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 (baseurl) url: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ now: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64 now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-16&arch=x86_64 Checking for new repos for mirrors preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist) url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f16&arch=x86_64 now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f16&arch=x86_64 Checking for new repos for mirrors * preupgrade-fedora: fedora.inode.at Fetched treeinfo from http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os//.treeinfo treeinfo timestamp: Thu Nov 3 04:10:12 2011 MEMORY | 883 B 00:00 /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz checksum OK /boot/upgrade/initrd.img checksum OK Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 330, in <module> pu.main(release) File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 220, in main extra_args += " ks=%s" % self.generate_kickstart(extra_cmds=self.kickstart_cmds) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 607, in generate_kickstart return dev.bootpath_to_anacondapath(targetfile, UUID=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/preupgrade/dev.py", line 91, in bootpath_to_anacondapath raise PUError, "/boot is on RAID device %s" % bootdev preupgrade.error.PUError: /boot is on RAID device md0
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 500004 ***