ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

John T Nelson developer at computation.com
Fri Jan 23 03:55:58 UTC 2004


No... update the current loader which is LILO.

-- John



On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:53, John T Nelson wrote:
> > I tried this. The update just went through the motions and concluded that 
> > the install was completed. No change in modules.
> > 
> > -- John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Robin Laing wrote:
> > 
> > > Wade Chandler wrote:
> > > > Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote:
> > > >>
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Another thing you can do is put the install disk on and choose to 
> > > > upgrade your current system and simply walk through the install again. 
> > > > It shouldn't overwrite everything you've already done, but you can 
> > > > choose to install Grub to your mbr at that point....without the 
> > > > configuration.
> > > > 
> > > > Wade
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I had a similiar problem and I had to do an install instead of an 
> > > upgrade from the installation CD.  I only installed the kernel.  The 
> > > upgrade would not work as the rpm database said that the kernel was 
> > > installed already.
> > > 
> > > My computer crashed during a kernel upgrade and I could not install 
> > > teh kernel from RPM using either booting off of the CD or the 
> > > emergency disk.
> > > 
> > > It did change my boot from dual (FC/XP) so I cannot boot into XP but I 
> > > don't care as I was about to trash XP anyways.
> > > 
> > > This was a good lesson in keeping an older kernel on the HD in cases 
> > > something like this happens again.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> And you asked the installer to install GRUB?
> 
> Sturla
> 
> 
> 





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