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

[Joel Rees]

Never mind.

I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in
a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there.

And the engineers whose hubris pushed this accursed merge /usr project
have my eternal disrespect.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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



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