On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
md /boot is definitely broken, has been for ages and the bugs
don't seem
to have been touched. It's also obvious nobody bothered to actually test
that case because the error paths in the install code don't actually
work for that case either !
I always set up my md /boot manually and it works fine after that.
Fortunately the usual updating fedora-release, yum upgrade approach
worked on my boxes. I'd avoid preupgrade anyway it seems to like breaking
systems and leaving them half upgraded so you have to rescue the mess by
hand.
I don't even upgrade anymore. I just keep two partitions (Logical
Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1. I always
do a fresh install, formatting the partition from the older install.
This has the advantage of providing a backup in case the new Fedora
doesn't work so well. Eventually, when updates to the new Fedora fix
the most annoying bugs, I switch to using it full time.