upgrading f16 (32bit) to F17 (64bit) when /usr is is a partition

[Joel Rees]

Well, I looked around with the rescue mode, and it looks like the
netinstall failed to install the kernel and associated files. And
grub2 can only find f16 kernels.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was planning things out, then I thought, just maybe it'll work, and
> tried the straight upgrade.
>
> Is there any way to recover?
>
> (Without losing my precious list of installed apps that started from
> the security live CD?)
>
> And is there any way to glue a separate /usr partition in so that the
> accursed thing can boot if I can get it to find the F17 kernel?
>
> (Before someone jumps all over me for daring to deny the new
> conventional wisdom that /usr should be an alias for / or whatever, I
> had to break it up like that to get around the stupid basic
> partitioning scheme forced by the OEM MSWindows home edition or
> whatever Microsoft calls their attempt to answer freedom with the
> dole-by-force. Not that I agree with combining /bin and /usr/bin, but
> in this case I had hard reasons, not just the ones that will become
> obvious next year when it all hits the fan.)
>



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Joel Rees