On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:04:33 -0500, SV (Sam) wrote: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying > over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and > directing grub to load them. > > Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me stare at a > blank screen, and the only available option, apparently, was the three- > fingered salute. I wrote it off as an F15 glitch. > > Now, same story with F16. Looks like I have to do a real PXE boot. No big > deal, but it's a pain. Grub was much easier – copy two files over, edit > menu.lst, and I'm done. > > I don't seem to find this installation method documented, just wondering if > it's gone for good, or this is just my problem. What kind of machine is it? Using the vmlinuz+initrd.img pair from the 'isolinux' directory continues to work. Add boot option repo=... or askmethod as appropriate. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
