On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your > bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3 > Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and > then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally. > > I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and > creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not > done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough. > > I just wanted to get this package "out there" for anyone wanting to > update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the installer. > > At present there are a few limitations: > > 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should > work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it > does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable > to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do > not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for > the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to > manage this welcome. Cannot you just made dracut/mkinitrd always include it and just rebuild initrds so that any kernel with work > 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in > your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the > upgrade boot. Cannot you just automatically remount / rw?
