Re: Fedora 8 and preupdate

1PW wrote:
Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
I'm trying to find out what a grub.conf file looks like at the rebooting stage after the update image has been made from the poke-and-hope interface. (I can't find any log files or anything to do with it, nor a man page)

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However, the paucity of information on how to make use of preupgrade has stymied my attempts. Any info on where that can be found would be greatly appreciated.

Do a: "man grub" followed by a "info grub".

Even the RH9 guide has a good description of the grub's involvement in
the boot process:

<http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-grub.html>


After looking over the material, let us know if you still have questions.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I need much newer information than that. The idea of preupdate AFAIK wasn't around until Fedora 8. It's how grub can use the upgrade image without looking for rpms on a CD that I can't find covered anywhere. I'm strongly suspecting that it will work only on systems that have a single OS (or maybe it will work if it is a dual-boot with the chainloader stuff for windows).

Of course, I could just be looking unintelligently.



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