Re: F16 upgrade disaster

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Bruno Wolff III writes: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:21:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > But then, a reboot gets stuck at "Error 16". I tried everything I > could think of, but I give up. I'm pxe-booting this brick into > rescue mode, pulling my files off, and reinstalling. A change in the

Re: F16 upgrade disaster

2011-11-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:21:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > But then, a reboot gets stuck at "Error 16". I tried everything I > could think of, but I give up. I'm pxe-booting this brick into > rescue mode, pulling my files off, and reinstalling. A change in the gcc compiler broke grub i

F16 upgrade disaster

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
TL;DR: grub2 turned out to be a disaster. Grub from F15 was still there, so it was able to boot F16, but after applying the updates, uninstalling grub2, installing F16's grub, it fails to boot with "Error 16". Anyway, I started an upgrade of F15 to F16. I got a complaint that Anaconda could