Bug 690398 - Preupgrade installs unbootable upgrade system
Summary: Preupgrade installs unbootable upgrade system
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: preupgrade
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-24 08:28 UTC by Matthias Runge
Modified: 2012-05-11 09:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-05-11 09:51:37 UTC
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Description Matthias Runge 2011-03-24 08:28:21 UTC 
Description of problem:

after executing preupgrade (on f14)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I'm not sure, if this is really preupgrade related
preupgrade-1.1.8-1.fc14.noarch

How reproducible:
every time, different systems

Steps to Reproduce:
1. preupgrade to f15 
2. reboot to install system
3.
  
Actual results:
install system shows black screen, blinking cursor. 


Expected results:
boot into anaconda to install/upgrade system


Additional info:
tried this in virtual box and on real (not ancient, about 3 years old) hardware.
/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz and /boot/upgrade/initrd get installed, grub entry is written, it looks ok.
Comment 1 Robin Green 2011-04-22 08:15:54 UTC 
I discovered that on my machine, although it looks to be doing nothing, it does actually work after a while.
Comment 2 Matthias Runge 2011-05-20 11:05:09 UTC 
Latest version of preupgrade (1.1.9) fixes this.
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