benperove.com: Upgrade Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 Using PreUpgrade
Don
· 1 year ago
Ben,
This worked fine until after the reboot, when it said it was missing a file for ther kernel and wouldn't reboot. I didn't lose my Fedora 8 installation. Do I need to have a look at menu.lst and check/modify something there? (It looks like a classic case of it not finding the kernel at boot.)
Don
Ben
· 1 year ago
Type fdisk -l and what is the output? Or you can't get that far...
Sounds like Grub is messed up. Burn a Fedora 9 DVD ISO and boot into recovery mode.
When you get to a shell, type:
grub
Depending on where your boot partition resides, you will need to specify the corresponding device. For example, my boot partition resides on /dev/sda1, so I would type:
root (hd0,0)
If my boot partition happened to live on partition number 6, then it would be (hd0,5), etc.
Then type:
setup (hd0)
Type quit and then exit to reboot. Any luck?
ahmad
· 1 year ago
this tutorial is for upgrading from gui, not command line
dave
· 1 year ago
I would like to ask for this post to be deleted seeing as anaconda is still beta and you will end up at a terminal if you follow this guide
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This worked fine until after the reboot, when it said it was missing a file for ther kernel and wouldn't reboot. I didn't lose my Fedora 8 installation. Do I need to have a look at menu.lst and check/modify something there? (It looks like a classic case of it not finding the kernel at boot.)
Don
Sounds like Grub is messed up. Burn a Fedora 9 DVD ISO and boot into recovery mode.
When you get to a shell, type:
grub
Depending on where your boot partition resides, you will need to specify the corresponding device. For example, my boot partition resides on /dev/sda1, so I would type:
root (hd0,0)
If my boot partition happened to live on partition number 6, then it would be (hd0,5), etc.
Then type:
setup (hd0)
Type quit and then exit to reboot. Any luck?