Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Thu Mar 1 16:42:27 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 19:28 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Upgrading with PATA Hard Disks
> > ========
> > If you are using PATA (parallel or "original" style ATA) hard disks and you 
> > attempt to do a manual yum upgrade to this release, you may be unable to boot 
> > your system when finished. To avoid this problem, use the installer program 
> > (Anaconda) to upgrade your system instead of using yum.
> >   
> 
> "*Manual* yum upgrade" implies that I would prefer some *manual* (not 
> Anaconda) way to fix this issue...
> 
> In other words, what I should do after the "yum upgrade" and before the 
> reboot?

AFAIK this works now.  I upgraded from FC6 to rawhide yesterday on a
PATA laptop with no problems, and no special dancing required.

- ajax




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