Installing Grub Boot Loader FC10 to FC11 update

[woodelf]

SYSTEM SPECS
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
CPU2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
CPU3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
Total of 4 processors activated (24448.54 BogoMIPS).

4736MB HIGHMEM available

1/2 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor
320173056 512-byte hardware sectors: (163 GB/152 GiB)
2/2 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor
320173056 512-byte hardware sectors: (163 GB/152 GiB)

HERE ARE THE STEPS I USED TO UPDATE FROM F10 to F11
after the upgrade was downloaded via SYSTEM UPDATE MANAGER !

1. mount -t ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol1 /mnt/sysimage
2. mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot
3. mount -t ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol2 /mnt/sysimage/tmp
4. mount -t ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol3 /mnt/sysimage/var
5. mount -t ext3 /dev/vg00/lvol4 /mnt/sysimage/usr
6. Grub looks in /proc so mount a procfs under the filesystems

# mount -t proc none /mnt/sysimage/proc

7. Grub looks in /dev, bind a copy of the current dev under the fs

# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev

8. Chroot to the new system complete with proper proc and devs

# chroot /mnt/sysimage
9. grub <cr>
10. grub> find /grub/stage1
returns
(hd0,0)
(hd1,2)
grub>
11. grub> root (hd0,0)
returns
"Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition tyhpe 0x83"
grub>
12 grub>
returns
"setup (hd0)
"Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
"Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
"Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
"Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
"Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 23 sectors are embedded.
"succeeded
"Running "Install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+23 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf...succeeded
"Done.
grub>
13. grub> quit
returns you to root shell prompt
sh-3.2 #
14. sh-3.2 # exit <cr>
15. sh-3.2 # now at ramdisk root - type exit again to reboot
16. sh-3.2 # exit
begins reboot.
remove RESCUE CD
17. REBOOT IN-PROGRESS
18. VOILA ! - GRUB BOOTS KERNERL - AOK !
19. ON REBOOT
"Press Any Key to enter menu"
20 Proceed from HERE !
21. IF upgrading release, select the upgrade from the menu
else select an OLDER kernel and check things out.
22. I elected to continue with the UPGRADE process which was
downloaded via SYSTEM UPGRADE.
a. "searching for devices"
b. "starting install process"
c. "Preparing transaction from installation source"
d. "installing packages downloaded to disk. XX of 1743 packages"
23. 45min later, FC11(LEONIDAS) was up and running !

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