Pre-Final TC1 Testing Request

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 17:06:26 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 08:50 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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.

That would be worth a +1, really (and I've tested the EFI side). If you
could change your comment to a +1 that'd be great.

Anyone else, please test and karma grub - we really want 83 in tc1 not
80. thanks!
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