Undo 7.10 upgrade to 8.04 ?

[Aart Koelewijn]

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