Never mind. I'll just chalk another one up to the wrecking crew, install fresh in a 15G partition and figure out where to go from there. And the engineers whose hubris pushed this accursed merge /usr project have my eternal disrespect. On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well, I looked around with the rescue mode, and it looks like the > netinstall failed to install the kernel and associated files. And > grub2 can only find f16 kernels. > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I was planning things out, then I thought, just maybe it'll work, and >> tried the straight upgrade. >> >> Is there any way to recover? >> >> (Without losing my precious list of installed apps that started from >> the security live CD?) >> >> And is there any way to glue a separate /usr partition in so that the >> accursed thing can boot if I can get it to find the F17 kernel? >> >> (Before someone jumps all over me for daring to deny the new >> conventional wisdom that /usr should be an alias for / or whatever, I >> had to break it up like that to get around the stupid basic >> partitioning scheme forced by the OEM MSWindows home edition or >> whatever Microsoft calls their attempt to answer freedom with the >> dole-by-force. Not that I agree with combining /bin and /usr/bin, but >> in this case I had hard reasons, not just the ones that will become >> obvious next year when it all hits the fan.) >> > > > > -- > -- > Joel Rees -- -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
