On 5/20/23 3:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 04:12 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 17:07 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Apologies if you've already considered this, but I wonder why you
don't
just do a fresh install of F38 (or F37). It would have been much
quicker than all the futzing around you've had to do, and you could
have seized the opportunity to expand the /boot partition to 1GB.
My system is probably about as old as yours, and I did this a year
or
two ago when BTRFS became the default filesystem (though I was
already
using it for /home). Haven't regretted it since.
My sentiments, exactly. Upgrades in place were a pain when I did
them
donkey's years ago, and I repeatedly see threads like this on this
list
(despite someone else's thoughts that they don't).
Sure, if things go fine there's an ease of doing nothing more than an
update. But when things go haywire, and they often do (immediately
or
later on), there's an awful lot of housekeeping to go through.
And, there's more than just updating files with newer versions.
Their
can be filesystem changes, different partitioning schemes, etc. Some
of which are very difficult to manage in an update over the top.
Just to clarify: I almost always do an upgrade. The reinstall I mention
was probably the first one I'd done in over 5 years at the time. I
don't normally have any problems, but little by little a lot of cruft
tends to accumulate so once in a while it's good to house-clean.
poc
(sigh)
I have multiple reasons for not going that route.
- This is my only computer; no cell phone; no laptop/notebook; no internet access any other practical way.
- For private reasons, I cannot get anything else.
- This is a dual-boot workstation; the other OS being windows-7.
- I have no sys.admin, OS, file system, etc. training or experience.
So for me, re-installing is too risky and too difficult. I had severe difficulty with the original install 10 years ago; I still don't know how that managed to finally work. If I try to re-install and get into trouble, I would have no way of getting help.
I made multiple tries at making a live USB very recently. They all failed. I opened a thread on this list about that; the only thing I got from that was that the sticks were good. I know from other tasks that the ports and other hardware are also good.
From what I've read in this list, switching to btrfs is tricky for a dual-boot workstation such as this. And here, too, if something goes wrong, I would have no way of getting help.
I actually wish that I could get a whole new workstation. But that option is not open to me now and in the foreseeable future.
I am seriously considering enlarging /boot. But I anticipate that would take even more help from this list than this current problem. So we're back to where this left off....
How do I get the grub menu corrected?
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