Fedora 11 Not Installed After Successful Upgrade

[nujinini]

Hello Everyone,

I just finished a successful upgrade from Fedor 10 to 11 as per nano

      kernel /boot/vmlin
  GNU nano 2.0.6           File: /boot/grub/menu.lst                            

default=1
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)
        kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgr$
        initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686)
        root (hd0,6)uz-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=73ce976e$
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686.img
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

However, when I reboot, my desktop and system seems to still be at the Fedora 10 environment.
This is what uname -r gave me.

[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686
[root@localhost ~]#

I am confused because the grub says I was upgraded but the uname -r says I was not.

Can somebody kindly help me find the solution please?

Thanks in advance!

[Lazydog]

That is simple to fix. Look at grub.conf there you see the 'Default' is pointing to '1'. change this to '0'. Remmeber counting is started as 0 not 1.

I also would not think of this as an upgrade, you are just using the fc11 kernel. Unless that is all that is required to upgrade in FC now days.

[MikeTbob]

That is simple to fix. Look at grub.conf there you see the 'Default' is pointing to '1'. change this to '0'. Remmeber counting is started as 0 not 1.

I also would not think of this as an upgrade, you are just using the fc11 kernel. Unless that is all that is required to upgrade in FC now days.

Wouldn't that be weird. Upgrade the kernel for the newest Distro.

[Lazydog]

I just put that there in case he didn't really upgrade and just installed the FC11 kernel. I would think that a true upgrade would have set grub.conf correctly.

[nujinini]

That is simple to fix. Look at grub.conf there you see the 'Default' is pointing to '1'. change this to '0'. Remmeber counting is started as 0 not 1.

I also would not think of this as an upgrade, you are just using the fc11 kernel. Unless that is all that is required to upgrade in FC now days.

Hi Lazydog,

Thank you for your suggestion. I changed the Default to 0 but when I made a reboot, it gave me an error, (file not found). The old kernel FC10 is till working though.

I tried to make the upgrade by way of this site:

How To Upgrade From Fedora 10 To Fedora 11 (Desktop & Server) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

It seemed that the upgrade was a success since I have not noticed any error reports during the more than 6 hours of process. Quite confused

[nujinini]

Wouldn't that be weird. Upgrade the kernel for the newest Distro.

Hehehe

Honestly, I think that would have been a faster fix for me. But anyway...

I notice that the FC11 is not giving any kernel numbers or code?

title Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)
        kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgr$
        initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img

Unlike the Fedora 10?

title Fedora (2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686)
        root (hd0,6)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=73ce976e$

Do you think my upgrade was a failure?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that when the time to REBOOT came, it did not load any FC11 repos. It just automatically went to the FC10 environment. I was expecting it it load since this was the last step mentioned in the site I followed.

[Lazydog]

You followed the above web site to the letter?
If so then you will notice that it states 'I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!'
I have neve upgraded a system this way so I really cannot comment on if this should work or not.

The only thing I can say is try it again and if it doesn't work check your log files as there must be something in there to tell you why it is not working.
It seems the file that should be booted is not where the system thinks it should be.

[nujinini]

You followed the above web site to the letter?
If so then you will notice that it states 'I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!'
I have neve upgraded a system this way so I really cannot comment on if this should work or not.

The only thing I can say is try it again and if it doesn't work check your log files as there must be something in there to tell you why it is not working.
It seems the file that should be booted is not where the system thinks it should be.

Yes I followed it to the letter

Anyway, I will just have to use the FC10 and wait for the pop-up invitation to upgrade to 11. I had a better experience using it before. My laptop just got screwed up thats why I used a FC10 CD and am trying to upgrade to 11.

Thanks Robert!