2 anaconda problems

[jpprade]

Hello

I have 2 issue upgrading to fedora 16 with pre upgrade :

First it is this issue :
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=1#post1532533

I also solved it with nomodeset

Now anaconda is well loading, but I get another error :

"the root for the previously installed system was not found"

I don't know how to solve this issue, maybe because it come from the nomodeset option...

all the uuid seems correct :

default=1
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Mise à niveau vers Fedora 16 (Verne)
        kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade ks=hd:UUID=2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg
        initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 ro root=UUID=2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=fr-latin9 rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
        initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 ro root=UUID=2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=fr-latin9 rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
        initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 ro root=UUID=2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=fr-latin9 rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
        initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.38.5-22.fc15.x86_64)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.5-22.fc15.x86_64 ro root=UUID=2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=fr-latin9 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.5-22.fc15.x86_64.img

[root@localhost boot]# blkid 
/dev/sda1: UUID="2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="a3357935-ad9b-44a3-8ef5-9976689c9ced" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb2: UUID="8134de64-e725-417c-8e62-20b9bf48ae7a" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb3: UUID="58b6dc4a-1b26-4799-81c0-67ae310fe8c8" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb5: UUID="084117b5-c457-417f-a021-e565b41371ae" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/root: UUID="2e5220d2-7311-4143-9ca0-e729d3c476c3" TYPE="ext4"

Fortunately I still can boot and use f15 normally so I can make change in the /boot/upgrade/ks.cfg file if needed, but does anyone has an idea of how to solve it ?

thanks a lot !

[chauchau78]

Is your /var not on thr root fs? If this is the case, it's a known bug of anaconda. You will find workarounds on the forum or on RedHat forum.

[jpprade]

Yes thanks, I also asked the question on the french fedora forum an I got the link to the bug :

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common..._.2F_will_fail

So I had to add :

nomodeset updates=http://clumens.fedorapeople.org/748119.img

then finally the update ran successfully.