ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

[John T Nelson]

This sounds similar to my problem. Apparently the Fedora upgrade process
has some kind of bug. I have another box that runs Windows XP (that's why
the subject of this article is "ANOTHER... tale of woe") which exhibits 
the same problems with XP that you have (can't boot into XP). Trying to 
upgrade to Fedora CORE, installed GRUB over the Windows MBR and now I 
can't boot into XP. Just goes to the "GRUB L?" prompt.

Of course, now my setup is mangled.

-- John



On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Robin Laing wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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