On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 12:43 +0200, Christian Menzel wrote:
Hi,
I have F16 running on a ThinkPad X220 and therefore a EFI setup with both grub and grub2 installed.
Today yum wants to update (among others) the kernel and grub as well as grub2. But a conflict is reported stating: 1:grub-0.97-79.fc16.x86_64 has installed conflicts grub2: 1:grub2-1.99-6.fc16.x86_64.
Should I try the suggested --skip-broken switch? I don't want to end up with an unbootable system.
What's eventually going to happen is that grub2 will replace grub and you'll have to write a new config manually. You can beat the rush and do it now - install grub2, remove grub (you can use yum shell mode to do this without any complaints), run 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' then 'grub2-install /dev/whatever' , where /dev/whatever is the device you want to boot from.
This should work in most cases, though if you're using BIOS RAID you might run into a bit of trouble - we keep finding cases where grub2/BIOS RAID is busted.