Today, I tried to upgrade my F14 test machine to F15.
Machine in question: HP Pavilion 7490 desktop PIII w/512MB ram. Intel (something old) graphics
1st, I downloaded and burned (to a CD-R) the Live Desktop i686 CD. It boots in the CD drive and runs (in fallback mode). I got my first look at Gnome 3. (oh boy)
2nd, I downloaded and burned the i386 install DVD to a DVD+RW. When I tried to boot it (from the machines DVD drive) it failed to boot. Strange as the CD boots from the CD drive. (I'm about to try my x86_64 install DVD in this laptop just to see if its a problem booting from DVD+RW disks....)
3rd, I ran preupgrade, which sat and churned, and downloaded a bunch of packages, then announced it was ready to reboot. When I rebooted, and selected the Upgrade to F15 entry, all I got was a blinking flat cursor in the upper left of my monitor. Nothing happens after that point. I can give the 3-fingered salute to reboot the machine, and I can select one of the 3 installed F14 kernels and the machine will reboot (into F14).
Here are the grub entries for the pre-upgrade and F14:
title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=f3299b81-9fc4-46eb-9189-a79591e894a1:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=f3299b81-9fc4-46eb-9189-a79591e894a1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM vga=0x123 LANG=e n_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us noiswmd initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.img
The other 2 F14 grub entries are similar to the one above.
Can someone tell me what's wrong with the F15 upgrade entry (why won't it boot?) I've tried adding a root grub directive and a root= kernel parameter entry, and neither of those changes makes a difference....
Do I need to add something? Do I need to change something?
As I look at the 3 files in /boot/upgrade, they are all chmod 644. As I look at the kernel images in /boot, they are all chmod 755. Should the /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz file be changed to 755?
Inquiring minds want to know why preupgrade won't work for me!
Thanks for any/all advice!
Kevin J. Cummings writes:
Today, I tried to upgrade my F14 test machine to F15.
Machine in question: HP Pavilion 7490 desktop PIII w/512MB ram.
There you go. Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15 are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of ram.
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15 are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of ram.
Geez, either is too much. How inefficient is the programming to require that much?
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:32 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15 are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of ram.
Geez, either is too much. How inefficient is the programming to require that much?
This is what the initial ram disk needs to load an entire basic root partition and bootstrap the installation. It doesn't mean it needs that much to run the system once installed.
poc
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:32 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15 are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of ram.
Geez, either is too much. How inefficient is the programming to require that much?
This is what the initial ram disk needs to load an entire basic root partition and bootstrap the installation. It doesn't mean it needs that much to run the system once installed.
You can indeed reduce memory once the system has been installed; but, you first need to be able to install. How do you install Fedora 15 if your system has less than 768MB of RAM?
poc
On 05/25/2011 10:03 PM, Kam Leo wrote:
You can indeed reduce memory once the system has been installed; but, you first need to be able to install. How do you install Fedora 15 if your system has less than 768MB of RAM?
If you have that little RAM, you've got to have swap, and once it's initialized anaconda should be able to use it.
On Thursday May 26 2011 00:22:01 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings writes:
Today, I tried to upgrade my F14 test machine to F15.
Machine in question: HP Pavilion 7490 desktop
PIII w/512MB ram.
There you go. Big flamewar in Bugzilla: minimum install requirements for F15 are, depending on who claims it, either 768mb or 1gb of ram.
I experince the same problem with 1GB of ram