Description of problem: Upgrading from Fedore 16 -> 17 vie preupgrade. Preupgrade fails to run installer because it is a dual boot machine. Followed instructions for modifying grub/menu.lst. Resulting kernel boots, selects /dev/sr0 as root, and fails with /dev/root does not exist. Thinking there might be an issue with finding root volumne, I copied root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root from Fedora 16 grub menu entry. That fails as well with /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root does not exist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. run preupgrade successfully 2. modify grub/menu.lst as per troubleshooting instructions on preupgrade wiki page 3. reboot Actual results: root not found Expected results: expect installer to boot Additional info:
Tried creating a LIVE usb boot drive to see what would happen. Installer correctly finds old Linux system, but does *not* give me an option to upgrade from Fedora 16 -> 17. Instead it only offers to replace it. # cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 16 (Verne) I don't know if this is a related problem or not, but at this point it looks like I am unable to upgrade by any means. FYI the machine in question is a Dell Latitude D630 and in the past has been upgraded from Fedora 12 -> 13 -> 14 -> 15 -> 16.
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