Grub2 upgrade issue.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I'm working on upgrading my classroom lab from Fedora 14 to 16 
and doing a test on one system. Most things have gone ok with a 
few issues.

1. X11 didn't come up after the upgrade from dvd, but deleting 
xorg.conf fixed that.
2. Running yum update afterwards would found over 400 updates, 
but it would crash even with --skip-broken. Fixed that by using 
yumex, and doing small groups of updates, and then skipping just 
the ones that caused problem. 
3. Desktop icons missing from programs that were there before. 
installing gnome-tweak-tool seems to have gotten what I want.
4. Issue with grub.conf update. Didn't notice that there was a 
change in the grub process. The new grub2 got the Fedora 
options, and the os-probe seems to have gotten the XP that is on 
the machine. Two other options that were in the original xorg.conf 
are missing, and the memtest was also gone. Got memtest by just 
running the setup process, but not clear what would be the best 
option for the other two. Perhaps the 40_custom. Remotely 
accessing the system from home via VNC, so thought might get 
some expert advice.

Here are the old lines from the grub.conf

title G4L
	kernel /bz3x1.4 ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 
telnetd=yes
	initrd /ramdisk.lzma
title G4L Restore XP
	kernel /bz3x1.4 ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 
telnetd=yes run="mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/local && cd /mnt/local && 
./reimagexp "
	initrd /ramdisk.lzma

The first option loads my diskimaging project into ram and allows 
access from anther machine behind the firewall to run it remotely. 

The second option is able to restore the Windows XP from an 
ntfsclone image stored on /dev/sda6, which allows the quick 
restore of the XP in about 10 minutes for any reason. 


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  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
  mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net                            
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  G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer 
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