Upgrading RHEL6.2 to RHEL6.3 via kickstart fails with the message "Upgrade root not found. The root for the previously installed system was not found", why ?
Issue
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Upgrading RHEL6.2 to RHEL6.3 via kickstart fails with the message "Upgrade root not found. The root for the previously installed system was not found", why ?
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The installer fails at the stage where it inspects storage devices.
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The kickstart file is as following :
upgrade
url --url "http://<URL>"
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
firstboot --disable
skipx
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
zerombr
rootpw --iscrypted $1$nXqkGSTZ$Uo8fk2B5AnZds8NF2oCuD1
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/Los_Angeles
bootloader --location=mbr --append="nouveau.modeset=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0"
clearpart --all
part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=100 --asprimary
part swap --size=2048 --asprimary
part / --fstype "ext3" --size=100 --grow --asprimary
reboot
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
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