[Yum] yum: F9 => F10 in-place upgrade

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> David Timms wrote:
>>> Gerry Reno wrote:
>>>> I've been trying to do an in-place upgrade from F9 to F10. I 
>>>> downloaded and installed the Fedora 10 fedora-release rpms. And 
>>>> made sure the F9 versions were removed. But when I run 'yum 
>>>> upgrade' it say "No packages". Is there something else now we have 
>>>> to do?
>>> Probably a good question for fedora-list at redhat.com, however:
>>> 1. Do you know about preupgrade ?
>>> It pre-downloads all the metadata, rpms, boot images etc while you 
>>> continue to use Fedora, then when you are ready, you reboot into the 
>>> installer, confirm installation and before too long, you have F10 
>>> going.
>>> And is one of the supported upgrade methods (the other being upgrade 
>>> via the dvd disk itself).
>>>
>>> 2. The Fedora wiki covers inplace live upgrades, and has some hints 
>>> and tips:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum/YumUpgradeFaq
>>>
>> Thanks David. Yes, we know about preupgrade. What we have is a 
>> machine that was just upgraded to F9 that will not respond to 
>> keyboard and mouse and therefore we cannot use GUI tools. So we were 
>> just going to move it up to F10 using the old in-place upgrade method 
>> that we'd used for a long time. We can do this by remote login of 
>> course. But for whatever reason we cannot get the upgrade to work. I 
>> think it might have something to do with the transition files that 
>> were necessary because of key issues with F9.
>>
> I just found that preupgrade has a cli version. So I force installed 
> the old F9 release files and we'll see how this works. But I think the 
> old in-place method needs to be working as well.
>
Well, good new and bad news. Good news is that preupgrade-cli worked and 
we got F10 to load. The bad news is that we get the dreaded GRUB prompt 
on reboot. And worse, in qemu-kvm it is refusing to boot from CDROM 
drive which apparently has been an ongoing problem so now we have no way 
to recover. Jeez, I wish some of this stuff was a little more tested 
before just throwing it out there. </grouse>

Regards,
Gerry