Fedora upgrades with the preupgrade-cli utility
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In any event, the preupgrade-cli utility updated grub.conf and tried to boot into the upgrade kernel, but it didn't work, so I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on an alternate way to do the upgrade using preupgrade-cli. If not, I'll go back to the more time-consuming YUM upgrade procedure, but I thought I'd ask around to see if there's a quick fix to get the easier (and more rigorously tested) upgrade procedure going.
Thanks.
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I'd recommend cloning your disks (if you have enough space) just in case. Also, you will need to make sure you have plenty of free space in /boot (a couple hundred megs). Finally, from my experience grubby fails to add a 'root' line to the new kernel config for preupgrade, which will cause the boot into the preupgrade to fail with an Error 21. Just add a 'root' line like exists for your other boot configs (usually 'root hd(0)') and it should work.
Cheers.