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?