[GRLUG] Can't upgrade to Fedora 17

[Eric Beversluis]

On 9/24/2012 4:52 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> AAaaaaargh! After a 3hr download and several hrs spent trying to get 
> it to work, I gave up on preupgrade. Although it was supposed to 
> upgrade automatically once the download was complete and I rebooted, 
> nothing happened. Instructions for what to do in this case (needing to 
> tell the boot loader where the upgrade kernel was) were obviously 
> meant for older hardware and after a long time and some interactions 
> on the Fedora IRC, I tried to do a manual boot to the upgrade kernel, 
> only to be told that it could be found--several iterations of this.
>
> So I gave up on that and downloaded the whole F17 DVD, checked the 
> CHECKSUM and burned the iso DVD. But that wouldn't work either. I'd  
> hit "enter" to leave the normal boot, select F12 to "Choose temporary 
> startup device, and then selected "USBCD: SONY DVD RW DRU-840A", which 
> is where the upgrade DVD was located. Nothing. After spinning for a 
> while I got brought right back to the "Choose temporary startup 
> device" again.  After spending lots of time trying and retrying, 
> reading Fedora documents, etc. I gave up.
>
> I loaded my gparted-live disk (it booted fine from the same SONY 
> external DVD drive) and deleted everything--time for a clean install I 
> thought. Maybe something to do with UEFI craziness (that caused me all 
> kinds of trouble last year when I installed F15). But still no luck 
> getting the computer to boot from the F17 DVD.
>
> I don't think the DVD is defective. I was able to open it when it 
> mounted on the computer (before I bricked everything). I suppose I 
> could try to download the F17 iso again and burn a new DVD--the 
> download got nuked with everything else when I wiped the drive.
>
> BTW: when I now try to boot and select "Choose temporary startup 
> device", the Boot Menu shows the deleted Fedora and "ubuntu"--left 
> over from last september when I had to give up on Ubuntu because it 
> wouldn't get the screen resolution right? Why is it still showing 
> these old boot options when all that stuff has been deleted?
>
> Trying to do this on Lenovo X120e with AMD E-350 CPU.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> PS--the Evolution people recently gave me grief for running an old 
> version of Fedora and thus of Evo. This is why I hadn't upgraded--I 
> knew there'd be crazy snafus and  I'd end up having to spend several 
> days trying to get the upgrade to work.
>
> Thanks.
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Well I was able to delete the references to the old fedora and ubuntu by 
going into BIOS setup. I also tried switching Legacy Boot Priority from 
UEFI to Legacy, but that didn't help: still nothing when i try to boot 
from the F17 DVD.  Time to start a new download of it (on my Win 
box...). Maybe burning it there will somehow turn out better.