A preupgrade adventure - F16 to F17

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 12:21 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 21.07.2012 01:41, schrieb Martin Langhoff:
> > Hmm, now I think it was a F14 install:
> > 
> > ls -lah /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
> > -rw-------. 1 root root 837 Jun 13  2011 /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
> >
> > Who calls grubby and ignores its ungraceful death? That needs bubble
> > up the call stack...
> > 
> > Upgrade completed without any more hiccups. Moving to grub2
> 
> the move to grub2 should have been dobe in the F16 cycle
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_15_-.3E_Fedora_16
> look at "Bootloader change"
> 
> this may be a big change on older setups because
> you have to make sure there is enough space for
> GRUB2 meaning on all my machines installed in 2008
> make free space before the /boot partition
> 
> that is why the movement to grub2 is not done automatically

It is, if you upgrade via anaconda, but not if you upgrade via yum. We
couldn't find an acceptable method to trigger a bootloader upgrade via
yum.
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