Anaconda problem using preupgrade for Fedora 9

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Posted Feb 02, 2009 at 6:15:35 PM
Subject: Anaconda problem using preupgrade for Fedora 9
Has anyone else encountered this problem? After downloading and installing the packages needed for an upgrade of F7 to F9 via [i][size=9]# yum preupgrade[/size][/i] the Anaconda installer refuses to continue past a point where stage 2 of [b]grub[/b] is called. The problem seems to be that I have my /boot on another partition to / and Anaconda cannot locate it. I did this install successfully about six months ago by specifying where the iso image [b]grub stg2[/b] needs could be found. This time my work around plus other attempts all failed.
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Posted: Feb 04, 2009 10:56:23 PM
Download Super GRUB Disk at: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ , burn it to a cd, and boot from this cd-rom to fix your GRUB configuration.
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Posted: Feb 05, 2009 3:00:34 AM
But really Anaconda should not care that /boot is on a separate partition; this is a fairly common configuration.

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John M.
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Posted: Feb 05, 2009 10:55:36 PM
[quote=Binary Snake]Download Super GRUB Disk at: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ , burn it to a cd, and boot from this cd-rom to fix your GRUB configuration.[/quote] GRUB works fine. It allows me to boot the Windows98 partition (why would I do that :-( ) and the present Fedora 7 I'm upgrading from.
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John M.
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Posted: Feb 05, 2009 10:56:37 PM
[quote=proopnarine]But really Anaconda should not care that /boot is on a separate partition; this is a fairly common configuration.[/quote] That's what I would have thought :-(
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Posted: Feb 06, 2009 5:14:58 AM
How is your disk partitioned? I would recommend a fresh install to F9 or F10. If your main files (/, /home) are in separate partitions, this would be the most straightforward thing to do.

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John M.
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Posted: Feb 11, 2009 9:51:14 PM
[quote=proopnarine]How is your disk partitioned? I would recommend a fresh install to F9 or F10. If your main files (/, /home) are in separate partitions, this would be the most straightforward thing to do.[/quote] It's what I intend. My /home is separate. I'm going to try Ubuntu for a change, then perhaps come back to Fedora around 12 or 13 when the preupgrade tool is honed a bit more.
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