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Description of problem: Preupgrade cannot start because it installed a non-working GRUB boot entry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.10-1.fc15.noarch How reproducible: Only tried this once. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install preupgrade on FC15. 2. Attempt to upgrade to FC16. 3. Reboot Actual results: Unable to boot the install kernel. Expected results: Should boot into anaconda upgrade. Additional info: System is in UEFI mode, so default / directory for GRUB is in EFI/redhat/ Even if it wasn't using UEFI a /boot partition that was perhaps in partition 2 would still mess this up.
Looks like this was the problem I have being having. Preupgrades update kernel starts, but is unable to find the root partition. I try adding it to grub.conf to see if I can finish the upgrade process.
Modulo the grub to grub2 syntax changes, this is still a problem with the Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 preupgrade with preupgrade-1.1.10-1.fc16.noarch. Manually adding the "set root='(hd0,msdos1)'" in the grub editor allows the system to boot into Anaconda.
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