F16 => F17 PreUpgrade Invalid Device ID Dumps to dracut > Shell (Neil Bird)

[bhanks at bhanks.net]

  >    I had grub issues after an upgrade (DVD-based, though), and mine 
was down
> (among *many* other things) to a stuffed /boot/grub2/device.map, 
> which I
> then had to re-create from grub2-mkdevicemap (all done from a 
> recovery-boot
> off an install DVD, chroot'ed into /mnt/sysimage).
>
>    I learnt (& have since forgotten, before you ask!) far more about 
> grub2
> than I wanted that weekend ...
>
> 
> http://fnxweb.com/blog/2012/06/21/pain-with-grub2-when-upgrading-from-fedora-14-to-fedora-16/


Thanks for the info.  Too many changes.  I know grub well, but grub2 is 
a learning experience.

I'll give this a try this evening.



Brian