f9 Preupgrade stalled?

[Michael Cronenworth]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: f9 Preupgrade stalled?
From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 11/17/2008 09:11 AM

>> Thanks for the link. I think I have also used Cheapbytes but it was a
>> at least 5 years ago so I may have the name wrong. I think my problem is
>> that /boot is not on its own partition and grub isn't quite up to that.
>> If I could shrink the single partition on the drive, move it and create
>> a new /boot partition, then move /boot data to the new partition, grub
>> might then install Rawhide. But it's probably simpler to wait for the
>> official release.
>>
> It is not necessary for boot to be a separate partition..


It is necessary if you wish to use a LVM. Grub 0.9x cannot directly boot 
into a LVM. Fedora will have to adopt Grub2 first.