Getting grub launching the installer

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sat Nov 12 18:46:46 UTC 2011


On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying 
> over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and 
> directing grub to load them.
>
> Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me stare at a blank 
> screen, and the only available option, apparently, was the three-fingered 
> salute. I wrote it off as an F15 glitch.

How long did you wait? I updated a few days ago, but it took perhaps a 
couple of minutes before it should anything other than a blank screen.

 	Michael Young


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