Preupgrade does not work 16-17

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 19:05:39 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 08:28 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 08:18 +0530, A. Mani wrote:
> > I tried to upgrade fedora 16 x86-64 via preupgrade a few days ago.
> > After the first stage up to download of packages and installation of
> > grub2 for the actual install process ... it went fine.
> > The new grub2 entry was not bootable (known bug?), but anyway I
> > modified it manually and started anaconda. 
> 
> Yes. This is a known bug:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs#preupgrade_from_Fedora_16_does_not_update_bootloader_configuration

I'm not sure that's the same thing. The most common case of the bug
referred to there means that an entry is present and bootable, it's just
not the _default_. As A. Mani describes it, the entry he got wasn't
bootable at all, which would be something different.
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