Upgrading section of Installation Guide

[Chris Murphy]

On Dec 18, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> I
> don't _believe_ we have made any changes to the efibootmgr stuff between
> F18 and F20,

correct

> or that it is necessary to 'refresh' the grub2
> configuration

correct


> - I think UEFI upgrades at least between F18 and F20
> should not require or even recommend any form of manual intervention
> with grub

correct


> 
> So, I'd recommend replacing "This is not mandatory, but is recommended
> for BIOS systems and strongly recommended for EFI systems." with "This
> is not necessary for UEFI systems. It is not mandatory, but is
> recommended, for BIOS systems."

Yes.


> 
> and then dropping everything from "To update GRUB on EFI systems..." to
> "After the next reboot, your system will be using grub2-efi."

Agreed.

> 
> The 'fedup can only upgrade from Fedora 17 and above' note is also now
> fairly EOL-y. The "If the contents of your /etc/fedora-release" note is
> I believe a holdover from anaconda-based upgrades and can be removed.

By itself it's misleading and could get F17 users into trouble. I'd remove this section.



Chris Murphy