8.04 -> 10.04 Grub Grub 2 and LVM

[Karl Larsen]

On 06/29/2010 02:21 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 14:16 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>>> Incorrect. 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS upgrades are supported and that's
>>>        
>> how
>>      
>>> it's supposed to go. You can do a direct upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04
>>> w/o any other upgrade steps in between whereas if you were upgrading
>>> from a non-LTS release, you are recommended to go through each of
>>> those one by one.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>           Perhaps, but it failed totally for the person I wrote to.
>>      
>
> This is why my upgrade procedure has become:
>
> #0: Back up all data on the system. (home
> dir, /etc, /usr/local, /var/www, etc)
> #1: Burn new distro to cd
> #2: Boot from cd
> #3: Wipe drive
> #4: Do clean install
> #5: Restore all data.
>
> The nice thing about this method, is that if anything goes wrong, you
> don't care - you just go back to step 3 and try again. All your data is
> nice and safe on your backup.
>
>    
         What do you do if the 8.04 has a RAID hard drive and it fails 
to work on 10.04?  I really do not know either.


73 Karl


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