I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove completely existing installations ,second was removing existing linux installatios,third was to compress existing Ubuntu 10.04 and the last one was to install on free space.In all the options I was prompted to create boot partition of 500MB.In my existing system I have Win XP on sda1 Mandriva on sda 5,Swap on sda 7,Fedora8 on sda 8 and Data(Fat) on sda 6,Ubuntu 9.1 on sda9,Ubuntu 10.04 on sda10.Grub is on MBR.and no boot partition.
I stopped at this stage and cancelled the upgrade process.Which option I should use so that existing system is not disturbed.I am giving below partition table.
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x29e129e0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 2551 9728 57657254+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2551 3569 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 8710 9728 8185086 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 3570 3698 1036161 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 3699 4718 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 4719 5716 8016403+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 5717 6748 8284160 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order .
I follwed procedure for upgrade mentioned in fedora site except I have not filled /boot with filler files.
Vijay Bhide
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