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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