upgrade FC1 to FC2 via the CD's

[Timothy Murphy]

Phil Schaffner wrote:

>>  if I do an upgrade FC1 to FC2 from the CDs, will this
>> keeps the 2.4.xx kernel of FC1  ?
> 
> Unfortunately not.  This has been a severe shock to some.  Upgrade also
> clobbered my grub entries for a backup FC1 installation on another
> partition, but at least left the partition alone.

Strange. I have all my old kernels,
and grub.conf wasn't upset at all by upgrading from FC1 to FC2.

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default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.6)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-rc2)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-rc2 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.6-rc2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.4)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.26)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.26.img
title SuSE (2.4.25)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25 ro root=/dev/hda3
title Fedora Core (2.6.3)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3 ro root=/dev/hda6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.3.img
title Fedora Core Boot
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/fedora/vmlinuz
        initrd /boot/fedora/initrd.img

title windows-2000
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
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