ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

[Sturla Holm Hansen]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:53, John T Nelson wrote:
> I tried this. The update just went through the motions and concluded that 
> the install was completed. No change in modules.
> 
> -- 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
And you asked the installer to install GRUB?

Sturla