Upgrade 8.8 to 9.2 using leapp (does not boot into Elevate-Upgrade-Initramfs)

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Hi,

we are currently preparing a new dedicated server.
The hostingprovider doesn’t provide an 9.x image to install on the server, so we are trying to install 8.8 and upgrading with leapp.

the preupgrade script works fine, also the upgrade script (no errors) but on reboot, the server will not boot into the correct grub entry.

grubby --default-title reports the ELevate-Upgrade-Initramfs
the grubenv file has the …-upgrade.x86_64 entry as saved_entry

As far as i can see, the initramfs and vmlinuz files have been generated and in /boot/loader/entries an conf file hinting the upgrade exists.

But everytime i reboot, the server boots into the installed 8.8 system.

Does anybody have an idea?

Kind Regards

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Seeing the exact same issue. Curious if this will get fixed soon.

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Could not fix it by my self but found a workaround for hetzner dedicated server to install 9.x directly

For anyone interested:
in rescueconsole copy the almalinux9.x image to another place and rename it to almalinux-89.tar.gz … this way the hetzner installimage tool allows you to install the image.

you have to change the bootorder with efibootmgr after the installation.

Attention: THIS IS ONLY FOR FRESH INSTALLS, NOT FOR UPDATES!