The Right Column
Season of Wither


We were down
  But now we are
      UP
  
Fedora preupgrade works
fine to a point.  I used 
it and had very few issues
other than what it did
to grub.  And I am sure 
that mine was a fairly 
unique case, something
outside of their matrix 
of tested configurations.

Software is not a simple
thing though it is
incredibly straight forward.
You need to be meticulous.

The issues I had were
that 1st.  The boot
sector that I have 
is only 160 Meg.  I
would love to make it
larger, however I
have given the whole
rest of that drive
to a logical volume
manager.
Really I need to 
add another driver and 
then move boot off of
the old IDE drive.
However . . . even
though I have an
S-IDE card in the machine,
the board's bios does not
recognize it to allow
the system to boot from 
it.  So I left the boot
on an IDE.  The board
is, I think, from 2003.

In any case, because the
/boot partition was so 
small, and the preupgrade
utility needed just 1.7 meg
more, I took the leap of
faith and deleted my
old kernel!  That meant
that there was 'no template'
for grub to use.  And
so, preupgrade stuff
didn't know what to do
with grub.conf and left
it in the state of
trying to boot the
preupgrade images.

I was able to figure
out how to create a
proper grub.conf for my
install after only about
3 hours.  Well, everytime
I do this kind of thing
it becomes a little bit
easier.
Preupgrade needs to do a
better job with how it
changes grub.conf.  
Why does it delete the
old entries that show 
the old way to do it?
Why did it not leave a
grub.conf.old which
I could have used
as a template to do my
grub.conf modifications?

Oh, well, server is
back.  All is well.


Tree, 
by Conn. river, 
  in NH, 
  near VT