Fedora :: Fedora 11 Upgrade With LVM Missing /boot Partition?
Oct 14, 2009
I've just (finally!) gotten around to upgrading a couple of machines at a company I do some work for. One machine had a problem when I rebooted onto the new system. During the boot sequence, when it was checking and mounting the filesystems, it was unable to find the /boot partition. Now, this machine does run LVM on all but the /boot partition. The two SATA drives are mirrored, and they have the same partition layout:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I got the system to boot by commenting out the /boot partition in /etc/fstab, but this is certainly only a temporary solution. The other system that I upgraded came up just fine, as have several of my own. Unfortunately, I am doing these two systems by remote control via ssh as I have only limited plysical access to them. (I did have to get to it to figure out why it didn't boot up..)
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Jun 19, 2009
I recently upgraded from fedora 10 to fedora 11, everything seemed to go fine until I started eclipse and noticed that the java perspective was now missing. It was there before the upgrade, but something seems to be broken now. However, I can't find any error files, so I have no clue as to what may be broken. I looked around online to see if anyone else had a similar issue, but could not find anything that seemed to help. One site suggested that it was caused by not having the eclipse-jdt package installed, so I double checked that but already had it installed.
$ rpm -qa | grep -i eclipse | sort
eclipse-jdt-3.4.2-9.fc11.x86_64
eclipse-platform-3.4.2-9.fc11.x86_64
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Another site said that something in my .eclipse directory might have been corrupted and suggested moving it and letting eclipse create a new one, but this all did not . I was unable to find any other information about what could be causing this or how to fix it.
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Oct 9, 2009
I have just upgraded from F9 to F11. There are a lot of problems I appear to be having with dependencies.
yum update produces the following (the bits before appear ok):
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Processing Dependency: libslapd_db-4.4.so()(64bit) for package: openldap-debuginfo
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
vlc-core-0.9.9-2.fc9.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libass.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package vlc-core-0.9.9-2.fc9.1.x86_64 (installed)
openldap-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.fc9.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: libslapd_db-4.4.so()(64bit) is needed by package openldap-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.fc9.x86_64 (installed)
vlc-0.9.9-2.fc9.1.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: dejavu-fonts is needed by package vlc-0.9.9-2.fc9.1.x86_64 (installed)
devede-3.12c-3.fc9.noarch from installed has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: dejavu-fonts is needed by package devede-3.12c-3.fc9.noarch (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libass.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package vlc-core-0.9.9-2.fc9.1.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: dejavu-fonts is needed by package devede-3.12c-3.fc9.noarch (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: libslapd_db-4.4.so()(64bit) is needed by package openldap-debuginfo-2.4.10-2.fc9.x86_64 (installed)
Error: Missing Dependency: dejavu-fonts is needed by package vlc-0.9.9-2.fc9.1.x86_64 (installed)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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Jun 21, 2010
I upgraded from fedora 11 to fedora 13 which upgraded Netbeans from 6.5 to 6.8. Now 6.8 complains that package javax.persistence does not exist. Is this a fedora problem or a Netbeans problem? I've looked in the netbeans forums and can't find any discussion of this.
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Dec 8, 2009
I just upgraded from fc11 to fc12 with a great deal of trouble...finally am partially functional. The problem really bugging me is the missing claws-mail toolbar that shows "tools", addressbook, encrypt/decrypt, and especially the ability to load plugins, and set all preferences. I have tried uninstalling & reinstalling but nothing provides the toolbar I need. Yum does not provide anything new either. As most of my important passwords are encrypted, and I need the claws pgp plugin to be loaded.
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Dec 15, 2009
I just finished upgrading the last of 3 machines from F10 to F12 using preupgrade (all i686). Except for a non-critical hplip issue, all went well with the first two machines upgraded 1 week and 3 days ago, but some python F10->F12 updates were missing on the third machine that I upgraded yesterday, leaving yum inoperable. Thanks to good yum error messages, I was able to resolve the problem (I think), but I thought I should post to check if mine is a unique or common problem, to enquire if it may have resulted from some of the python packages being in "update transit" in the repositories, and/or whether something like this can be avoided in future? Details follow:
Upgrade appeared to go well except for some dejavu font dependency issues (experienced on all three machines) and libcrypto.so.7 missing for eet-1.2.2-4... (third machine). However, there was a boot message that some python module (can't remember which) was not present for some nvidia requirement, although video driver worked fine. When testing yum: First it complained that libpython2.6.so.1.0 was not present. Since that module conflicted (identified by rpm) with various python 2.5.*f10 packages that that were still on board, I copied libpython2.6.so.1.0 (from a current f12 rpm) into /usr/lib manually. Second, yum complained that urlgrabber was not available, so rpm with the latest python-urlgrabber for f12 solved that.
Third, yum complained that pycurl was not available, so rpm with the latest python-pycurl solved that. Yum now works! and boot message is gone! I ran "yum install python-libs" to make sure that any necessary dependencies were met following my manual installation of libpython2.6.so.1.0, which resulted in a bunch of python dependencies being upgraded as a result.
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Jan 10, 2009
I've just upgraded from F9 to F10. I can boot okay but I seem to have lost some data in one of my logical volumes. My drive is organised as follows:
/dev/mapper/main_group-various: UUID="f7c452cf-9f03-4f97-8676-b71b07a812aa" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
/dev/mapper/main_group-root: UUID="173f1845-72c9-49e8-9d49-2a5776c4267c" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
/dev/mapper/main_group-music: UUID="f5411861-4614-4652-a5f5-a3a8c2efcdd3" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
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The logical volume for work still seems to be there. I presume (and hope) that all the information in /dev/main_group/work is still there. How can the folders in /dev/main_group/work be retrieved?
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Apr 19, 2010
Recently I reinstall Grub, but I have chosen on ntfs (windows 7 partition E: drive). After this I chosen /dev/sda which is correct boot partition.
Now Fedora 10 and Win 7 booth are working properly.
How can I get back my E: drive safely?
In Fedora 10 E: is not available, where as in Win7 it is available but asking for Format.
how to get back my E: partition which was chosen wrongly as boot partition.
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Jun 25, 2010
can 't boot fedora 12 from usb HDD after upgrade from fedora12 to fedora13 failed
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Feb 18, 2010
I am new to Fedora and Linux. I have installed Fedora 12 on virtual box and installed Guest Additions. Later I did upgrade Fedora updates and noticed that my Guest Additions features were missing like Seamless mode, shared folders etc. Hence I had install Guest Additions again. So every time when I do Fedora updations, do I need to re-install Guest Additions or am I missing something very obvious?
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Feb 5, 2011
I upgraded from Fedora 12 to 13 a couple of days ago, and it seemed to go off without a hitch, but I can no longer boot into Windows. Disk Utility reports that partition as Unknown. It still says HPFS/NTFS (0x07), but it shows no flags, and it doesn't show the file system type the way the others do. Is there a way for me to recover this with a minimal loss of data (preferably none)?
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Jun 14, 2010
Apparently I altered my partitions while trying to make room for Ubuntu 10.04, and now I'm in a mess. For two weeks I have been searching the forums for a solution only to find instructions I don't understand or partial solutions.
Here's my situation.
I have an Acer AspireOne netbook (no CD, only USB).
I am able to access F2 setup, so I can prioritize the boot order. I can position my bootable (ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso) usb drive at the top of list, but when my computer reboots via usb, there's just a black screen with a white dash in the upper left corner that flashes.
When I boot with the hard drive I get:
So far, the only commands I have found that work are:
Now, like I said, I'm a newbie. But that hd0,5 concerns me; doesn't seem to fit.
I'm not concerned with saving data. I'm willing to start from scratch. I just can't get past that grub rescue prompt and I can't access my usb port so that I'm able to run the LiveCD.
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Mar 7, 2010
I have read a number of threads relating to the bootmgr missing issue but I can't seem to apply the fixes to my specific situation, any assistance is most welcome; my details below. I have two HDDs
1 x IDE HDD running Fedora 12 which is allowing me to write this,
1 x SATA HDD which has win7 premium 64-bit, and up until the Fedora 12 instal, was the only OS.
Grub gives me two options for boot, they are: Fedora Other When I select 'Other' I get hte message :BOOTMGR MISSING My assumption is WIn7 located on my SATA HDD = Other what I might do to allow Win7 to boot.
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Nov 28, 2008
I was playing with my linux machine for RHEL preparation. I dont know where i left it last time before going to leave . Now the system is up and I cant take risk to reboot the machine.
That make sense that it wasnt mounted properly in last bootup. but I am not sure.I have to recover it without reboot. Can any one help and sort it out?Please do let me know if you need more outputs.
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Mar 13, 2010
My most recent F11 -> F12 was a near-fiasco, because I had the bad luck of foolishly having two distinct physical drives in the same system, where the /(root) partition on each drive had exact same UUID (result of partition cloning and neglect to change the UUID on the copy)
BUT! the UUID redundancy was not the initial trigger of my problems (its near-disastrousness played itself out only while I was REMEDYING the initial problem). The initial trigger: insufficient space on my /boot partition. "preupgrade" neglected to properly assess the space and/or warn me about it before proceeding.
In addition, the automatic cycling out of grub kernel entries came to bite me (part of many factors of the near-fiasco) because after the unfinished upgrade i had only one working kernel left to boot into, until I messed up that remaining one (too long a story), and then grub-install messed up my booting because of duplicate UUID. At any rate, at the end of what looked like a good preupgrade-reboot-upgrade-package-install process the post-install phase lingered a looong time, then I found myself booted into the old Fedora 11 kernel with absolutely NO modules (corresponding /lib/modules had been erased by the upgrade!) Somehow the system ran, but no USB, no wifi, no ethernet, no way to easily place the right kernel rpm onto the hard drive (had to unscrew the drive,etc., to copy over the correct kernel rpm). (Plus, file /boot/preupgrade/vmlinuz, left over from the arrested upgrade, was NOT the right target upgrade kernel version (2.6.32.9-70.fc12), so it didn't help either because it didn't have its modules either. The target /lib/modules (version 2.6.32.9-70.fc12) WERE there, but the kernel itself was NOT, due to upgrade running out of space on the /boot partition).
(Oh, and the preupgrade/upgrade had deleted my /var/cache/yum/preupgrade/ packages; hence my inability to quickly (re)install the 2.6.32.9-70.fc12 kernel rpm -- why!? it hadn't successfully finished the process!)
(Also, FWIW, i ended up rescuing the system through "rpm -i --force <kernel>", many an F12 rescue boot, chrooting, /boot/grub/grub.conf & fstab edits, tune2fs/uuidgen, running grub on command-line ("setup (hd0)"), etc., etc.)
So, any tips out there on phasing out the old-school /boot partition scheme, the safest and easiest way (without destroying a working system, of course)?
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Sep 4, 2010
I had installed Fedora 13 on an unused partition of my ATA hard-drive yesterday. The primary OS here was Windows Vista.
Anyway, everything was working fne for coupla hours after which I had to restart F13 for some reason. This is when all the trouble began ..
Fedora wouldn't boot cause of some "power issues" - there were none. Windows Vista wouldn't boot because "BootMGR was missing"
I figured if I removed Fedora using the live CD - format the partition, it would help. It didn't. Well, atleast the partition got formatted. I tried re-installing F13 from the live CD but it doesn't finish the process - saying a command, something to do with 'shutdown' is not valid.
I tried repairing Vista from the Installation DVD but it is unable to do so.
Right now, on rebooting the computing, I enter the 'grub' console. I tried using grub commands to boot "Windows" from the (hd0,0) partition like thus,
Code:
grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
grub> makeactive
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot
But it still maintains that "BootMGR is missing" .
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Apr 10, 2010
I had a dual boot system(WinXP and Ubuntu). But something happened and I was not able to boot into my Ubuntu partition. It gave GRUB missing error. I tried reformatting the dedicated 40 GB ubuntu partition to NTFS and again try to reinstall ubuntu. But now, when I install ubuntu through boot time install, it shows that my whole hard disk is empty( but I have windows XP on whole hdd at the moment) and do not give any other option but to use whole hdd.
Alternatively when I try to install it inside windows, then after rebooting it shows, no root file system defined error and neither gives any option to do so also ( this method worked earlier o my PC). At the moment, It still shows ubuntu and windowsXP at OS choice menu at boot time but when booting in ubuntu, it shows GRUB missing. (I don't have any ubuntu installation on my hard disk at the moment).
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Apr 4, 2011
I have been foolish and accidentally deleted the 'Boot' folder from my Vista partition and now cannot boot Windows from the GRUB launcher. I'm not sure what to do next, since I can't find the recovery DVD either.
I managed to find a site with the 'bootmgr' file available to download but couldn't find anywhere to download the contents of the 'Boot' folder. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is there any software that can be run in Ubuntu (which launches perfectly well of course) which might fix this?
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Dec 27, 2009
I just installed fedora 12 on my laptop. fedora is booting and working fine, but the problem is that now windows isn't booting. when I try to boot windows i get the next message:
"BOOTMGR is missing"
I looked at /boot/grub/menu.lst, and those are the lines for booting windows:
"...
title win7
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
"
then i checked with fdisk -l and verified that windows is actually installed on the second partition (sda2).the next thing i tried was to use the repair option at the windows 7 installation DVD. the problem is that when i try to preform a startup repair, the installation DVD doesn't recognize my existing windows 7 installation, and therefore wasn't able to repair it. if it's relevant, here are some more details on my machine:
HP probook 4310
windows 7 64-bit
fedora 12 32-bit
i have one sata HD which I devided into 6 partitions {a system partition of the laptop, windows 7 (NTFS), swap, /boot (ext3), / (ext4), /home (ext4)}
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Feb 12, 2010
My previous setup was Windows Vista on partition 1, Windows 7 on partition 2, and my recovery partition on partition 3. I'm trying to switch from vista to fedora (cuz I hate vista), so I removed partition 1 and 3, expanded partition 2 a bit (from 80 gig to 150), and moved it all the way to the left with gparted. This gave me a 150g partition labled sda2 as my first partition. I then installed fedora on the (about) 150g of free space. After going into fedora, I used fdisk /dev/sda with menu option f to fix my partition labels. Now I have Windows 7 on partition sda1, fedora's boot on sda2, and fedora on a logical volume in sda3.
My issue is that I have that same old error bootmgr is missing when I try to boot to windows 7. I checked my grub menu, my fdisk, it all looks good to me, so hopefully someone can help me out. If I'm unable to do this without reformatting, could someone please advise me on a program to clone my windows 7? I have a lot of expensive programs on there that I could, in theory, go back to the manufacturer and request a new copy, but I doubt if I even have any license keys written down and I don't know where they would be, so hopefully I can pull them all off and have them work on a new install. Contents of fdisk -l and cat /boot/grub/menu.lst to follow:
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Mar 3, 2010
After the updates galore of yesterday in -current, I began to update my system using slackpkg. However, after upgrading the kernel packages, I had a power problem and the system went down. (I had run lilo first, before the blackout happened) Upon powering it on again, my system won't boot. The kernel loads, and then init takes control, but when it comes to the regular fsck, the boot halts with a big, scary warning message that the filesystem might have an error and libblkid.so.1 is missing.
Be advised that the packages in the big update of yesterday were installed on alphabetical order. An inspection on the Jan 25-updated version of Slackware-current on my laptop reveals that the library in question is part of e2fsprogs. That's odd; if there was an update for it, it should already have been installed, but the system complains that a file from that package is missing, anyway. All this boils down to: my system is now unusable, unable to boot, and I really don't have a clue on what to do.
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Jun 2, 2011
Im running ubuntu 10.10 on a dual boot machine together with vista. When I tried to delete a partition in gparted I accidentaly deleted the general partition table so I had to run testdisk on a live cd to restore it. The problem is that once I had done that and rebooted I get the message bootmgr is missing. I suppose Testdisk deleted or overwrote mz grubloader.
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Feb 20, 2009
Looks like 'fonts' issues. Will that stop me from upgrading from fc8 ->10? If so, where can I get them loaded from?
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Oct 1, 2009
I tried to dual boot Fedora on a vista system. Now fedora boots as primary and when i try to boot vista i get the message, bootmgr missing control, alt, delete to restart.
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Nov 16, 2009
I have a Fedora 11 with 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE kernel.I accidently deleted my boot partition by
Code:
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Is there a way to repair the boot partition without reinstalling Fedora? I still work with the booted system, but I think a can't reboot :-(
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Feb 10, 2010
I've been upgrading a Fedora server over the years. Once it was Fedora Core 2 now it is Fedora 10. Now I want to continue the upgrade process and upgrade the server to Fedora 11. The problem is that the boot partition is 100MB but Fedora 11 wants a 200MB boot partition. Looking at Fedora 13 it seems a boot partition of 500MB is gonna be the norm. I would just resize the boot partition but there is a LVM directly after it taking up the rest of the drive.
How do I resize my boot partition in this scenario?
My current line of thought is to use G4L to backup both partitions, then restore the boot partition to a large drive, increase the size with parted then restore the LVM backup after it.
So far G4L has been reluctant to backup the boot partition of Fedora on a test rig to an NTFS drive. Not sure if I should be backing up the image to a ext3 drive.
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Mar 13, 2010
i accidentally on purpose deleted my boot partition and rewrite something on it. Now i'd like to know how can i restore it. All i have now is the live cd. It's really bugging me that i can't have something nice for more than a week i'm seriously thinking to give my money back to old billy the kid or better to get an abacus and some sheets of paper and never again touch a computer.
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Mar 24, 2010
I have installed FC12 on a system that previously had FC9, (My dads PC) So far everything is great (except adobe flash ), however when i installed it I erroneously assumed it would use the old /home folder, I think I miss interpreted what I read during install. the old data is still on the disk but I cannot mount it because it contains a boot partition. I tried to use GParted to modify the old partition but was unable to modify LVM???
How can I remove the old boot partition and rename the folder so I can mount it and access the files on it. There was nothing really important lost, it would just save me a lot of time if I could access the files.
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Oct 21, 2010
way to recreate /boot partition for Fedora 13.
For some reason my system crash yesterday and I had to power down the machine (the only bit of information I still remember it mentioned CPU2 stop for few seconds). The next day my system only shows grub console. I tried to mount the partition but failed. here's what i tried
Code:
# mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-1 /mnt/oldboot
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/XXXXXX,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
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Aug 5, 2011
I am completely new to Linux in general, and have recently downloaded Fedora 15 KDE spin. I tried dual-booting between Windows 7 and Fedora by shrinking one of my Windows partitions (I have two, this partition not containing the Windows installation). I tried shrinking it to 30 GB less than the total space available on the partition, and after pressing continue, received an error (which I unfortunately dismissed quickly and can't remember). In the file manager, Fedora showed that my partition changed from 1.3Tb to 1.2 Tb, but I couldn't access it. Upon rebooting into Windows, I still can't access it, receiving a "format drive before use" popup and then error stating that it is possibly of a different filesystem or corrupt.
Unfortunately, I stupidly didn't backup any of my data (which I will be sure to remember to do in the future). I installed EASEUS Partition Master 8.0.1 Home Edition, which states that my drive is still of NTFS filesystem and has the total space it should. However, upon clicking "check drive," it states there are no errors and when trying to "explore files," it doesn't find any (yet it shows the correct amount of used and unused space). I then tried running TestDisk, but only allows me to check my media drive E, which is my dvd drive that has my Fedora Live CD in it (which cannot be ejected manually or through Windows, an error stating it cannot be ejected). I didn't go through with TestDisk for my DVD drive because I needed to verify the type of partition (which to my knowledge shouldn't even exist). It shows 700 something MiB / 600 something MiB. Although I have decent general knowledge about computers, I am a complete novice when it comes to doing something like this.
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