Preupgrade cannot find install image on reboot

[geckobelly]

Hi all, this is my first attempted upgrade with Fedora. I'm running Fedora 13 x64 in vmware workstation 7.1 and it's been going swimmingly for 2 months. I've hit a snag and searching google and the forums as well as fedora's own documentation doesn't seem to turn up anything up.

I have run preupgrade and it runs its processes and does its thing, asks me to reboot, I do, it scrolls through some text and presents me with choosing a language, then keyboard type, good so far, then presents a single option with ?, what partition and directory on that partition holds installation image for fedora? has path of /images/install.img. When selected, I see "An error occurred finding installation image on your hd. Check your image and try again." Going back to previous menu, it gives option for F2 for other install paths, long story short, while preupgrade was running, text in terminal seemed to indicate the install image and data was loaded in /boot/upgrade/install.img, F2 allowed me to go there, however, selecting choices in the upgrade folder would either bounce me back to the previous directory listing or show the error "failed to load driver disk from file". Suggestions? What am I doing wrong, what am I missing?

I noticed some issues around /boot partition size, don't know if it matters but the virtual machine is on a 50BG virtual hard disk and fedora is just on 1 drive, sda1 with 42 GB free.

[glennzo]

Does this virtual machine have more than one boot option? Can you boot into an old configuration? If so, or even if there is only one boot option, would it be possible to list out the result of fdisk -l and cat /boot/grub/grub.conf? I ran preupgrade once, as an experiment only, and upon reboot the loader was looking at the wrong partition if I remember correctly. This may not be a likely scenario in your case, but I suppose it's worth looking into.

[geckobelly]

Yes, I can reboot just fine, the image isn't damaged in any way, I can boot up normally if I restart it, I only get the upgrade option after rebooting after running preupgrade. The issue I'm trying to get at however it to successfully upgrade, and that I cannot do.

[glennzo]

Then post fdisk and grub info please.

[jwmueller]

I experience the same. Image location displayed by default is: /images/install.img

I found it should be /boot/upgrade/install.img

The drive config is sda1 = / sda2 = swap. No LVM.

I'm also running this on a virtual system, but I'm using virtualbox 3.2.8.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but after fixing the image location and anaconda starts, I get just black screen. Any ideas? I haven't tried the nodmodeset/vga optioins on the grub statements... thought I saw they weren't valid anymore on F14. With just a comment from anyone, I'll be happy to start a new thread, or if there's a quick fix on this, would be glad to try it.

jw

[AdamW]

try 'nomodeset xdriver=vesa' as command line parameters for the installer.