[Yum] preupgrade stuck

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> I ran preupgrade on a box with some raid arrays and volume groups. 
> Everything was working fine through the preupgrade portion but after I 
> rebooted anaconda cannot find the root of the existing installation and the 
> whole preupgrade is stalled (I opened a bug on this).  I can however boot 
> into rescue mode and see the system and all the preupgrade packages are 
> there.  How can I manually finish this preupgrade with just 'yum' from the 
> rescue mode?

you cannot. The point of preupgrade is that you're getting the pkgs you 
need for anaconda to perform the actual upgrade.

The advantage anaconda has vs yum for doing an upgrade is that anaconda is 
not having to do the upgrade on a running system.

-sv