Pre-Final TC1 Testing Request

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Oct 13 13:50:30 UTC 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 16:51:05 -0700,
  Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> test in whatever setups you can. The intended behaviour is that if you
> yum update a system with grub installed from a repo with both packages
> available, grub will be replaced with both grub-efi and grub2.
> Post-update, grub should still be in the MBR so the system should still
> boot, switching to grub2 in the MBR at present still requires manual
> intervention. Together with the fix for
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 these updates should
> cause preupgrades to work, but it's a bit hard to test, I think, as
> you'd have to give preupgrade a custom repo containing those packages to
> work from. I'm sure you can do that, but I don't know the process off
> the top of my head. Otherwise it'll have to wait till they propagate out
> to updates-testing.

I also tested removing and adding kernels after this update. Other than
some grubby messages that might be a bit scary to people, things worked
as expected. I just gave +0s since I didn't really test grub-efi or grub2,
just that the existing grub setup didn't get busted and would work
going forward.


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