ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

[Robin Laing]

Wade Chandler wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote:
>>

> 
> Another thing you can do is put the install disk on and choose to 
> upgrade your current system and simply walk through the install again. 
> It shouldn't overwrite everything you've already done, but you can 
> choose to install Grub to your mbr at that point....without the 
> configuration.
> 
> Wade
> 
> 
> 

I had a similiar problem and I had to do an install instead of an 
upgrade from the installation CD.  I only installed the kernel.  The 
upgrade would not work as the rpm database said that the kernel was 
installed already.

My computer crashed during a kernel upgrade and I could not install 
teh kernel from RPM using either booting off of the CD or the 
emergency disk.

It did change my boot from dual (FC/XP) so I cannot boot into XP but I 
don't care as I was about to trash XP anyways.

This was a good lesson in keeping an older kernel on the HD in cases 
something like this happens again.


-- 
Robin Laing