Undo 7.10 upgrade to 8.04 ?
Aart Koelewijn
aart at mtack.xs4all.nl
Fri May 2 09:10:00 UTC 2008
On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:37:26 -0400, elmo wrote:
> I started the 7.10 upgrade to 8.04 after midnight and the process seemed
> to work perfectly but I believe that I made some bad judgments because
> I was half asleep.
>
> One that I recall was selecting either a new menu.lst or keeping the old
> one. I chose the old one (why? , oh why?). Now there's nothing in the
> bootup menu that indicates that there is an 8.04 on board. When the
> desktop appears, it looks exactly like the old one in 7.10.
>
> How can I determine if the upgrade actually occurred. Should the
> desktop look different?
>
> Lastly, what's the best course to take from here? 1. Forget about
> upgrading......just delete 7.10 and install a fresh 8.04 from CD
> 2. Just do a fresh upgrade over the current upgrade. (long before
> midnight)
> 3. ????-----undo the upgrade then repeat the upgrade ( " " "
> )
>
> elmo
I made the same mistake. Run "sudo update-grub" and if the upgrade went
well you will have your new menu.lst. I (almost) never do a fresh
install, only on a new machine, and then I hate all the time it takes me
to get everything working the way I want it.
Aart
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