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Bug 747920 - Machine is unbootable after F15-F16 upgrade
Summary: Machine is unbootable after F15-F16 upgrade
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 737731
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F16Blocker, F16FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-21 11:58 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2011-10-21 16:30 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-10-21 16:30:35 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2011-10-21 11:58:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
After upgrading from F15 to F16 beta my machine is unbootable.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-16.22-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time. Same problem on both machines

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Bootable operating system.

Expected results:
Unbootable.

Additional info:
There is no new kernel entry in the grub config.

# grep grub upgrade.log
12:05:49 Upgrading grubby-8.3-1.fc16.x86_64
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
12:27:09 Upgrading grub2-1.99-9.fc16.x86_64
12:36:22 Upgrading grub-efi-0.97-83.fc16.x86_64
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config.
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config.
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config.

Please also see bug 728301.
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2011-10-21 12:00:43 UTC 
Might be a problem with grubby. I don't know what writes the template that is missing.
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2011-10-21 15:58:39 UTC 
Which option did you choose at the bootloader upgrade screen: "new bootloader configuration" or "skip bootloader configuration"?
Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2011-10-21 15:59:30 UTC 
Please attach the full logs. Those errors from grubby aren't actually necessarily as fatal as they seem (you get the same errors when you do a yum upgrade from f15 to f16 and then update the kernel, but grub config actually gets updated correctly).
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2011-10-21 16:28:14 UTC 
I didn't choose any bootloader option, it was an automated upgrade using preupgrade.

Bug 741538 has logs from an install of another machine with the same problem.
Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2011-10-21 16:30:35 UTC 
ah. if you used preupgrade then this is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 . There's now an updated F15 build of preupgrade:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/preupgrade-1.1.10-1.fc15

which should have this fixed. Please re-test with that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 737731 ***
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