upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

[Joel Rees]

I was planning things out, then I thought, just maybe it'll work, and
tried the straight upgrade.

Is there any way to recover?

(Without losing my precious list of installed apps that started from
the security live CD?)

And is there any way to glue a separate /usr partition in so that the
accursed thing can boot if I can get it to find the F17 kernel?

(Before someone jumps all over me for daring to deny the new
conventional wisdom that /usr should be an alias for / or whatever, I
had to break it up like that to get around the stupid basic
partitioning scheme forced by the OEM MSWindows home edition or
whatever Microsoft calls their attempt to answer freedom with the
dole-by-force. Not that I agree with combining /bin and /usr/bin, but
in this case I had hard reasons, not just the ones that will become
obvious next year when it all hits the fan.)

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Joel Rees