On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I tried using preupgrade to upgrade my F15 64bit to F16 and ran into
an issue with anaconda.
It gave me a somewhat confusion error:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112912133662927916698/albums/5692032713007...
Or, if you want to skip the picture link:
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Title: Upgrade root not found
The root for the previously installed system was not found
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So which is it? The title says the upgrade root isn't found but the
contents say the root of the previously installed system was not
found...
The latter. ;-)
Is your /var on another partition? If so, you're probably hitting this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748119
There's an updates.img in comment 42 that should fix it.
-T.C.