Fedora 6 directly to Fedora 9 upgrade path?

[Bill Davidsen]

vincenzo romero wrote:
> I just bit the bullet ....
> 
I was about to tell you that a full reinstall has some advantages, but 
you probably don't care by now.

Just for completeness:
- you can have encrypted filesystems, great on a laptop, may be
   useful elsewhere depending on your environment.
- You can use ext4 filesystems
- upgrade always leaves some crud behind, a jump this large is
   likely to leave more. Just tidyness issue and size of backup
   concern.

Glad you're happy with the result.

> 1.  upgrade was totally smooth - i did not do yum upgrade ... I just
> burnt the ISO DVD; and then booted off CD and chose, UPGRADE current
> system ...
> 
> 2.  it took a long time, but it went smooth ...
> 
> 3.  however, I further yum upgraded (AFTER the initial upgrade) ....
> my kernel, and installed the source (developer/headers) and upgraded
> .... somewhere AFTER upgrading to the latest kernel - I rebooted
> 
> 4.  boot FAILED and was stuck at GRUB in the upper left-hand side ...
> 
> 5.  booted off rescue cd and did a
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> grub-install /dev/sda recheck
> 
> 6.  I looked at the /boot/grub/ config files .. and for some reason
> peaked on the device.map .. and saw that it was changed - the current
> one looked like this:
> 
> (fd0)	/dev/fd0
> (hd0)	/dev/sda
> 
> 7.  I changed it back to only this:
> 
> (hd0)	/dev/sda
> 
> 
> And I was able to boot back into FC9!
> 
> :)
> 
> - V.
> 


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