On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote:
Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if it's been improved or not.
This is obviously straying from the topicality of this list, but yes the mechanism has been improved at least between F13 and F14, as I did do a preupgrade on my development/testing box, which will likely go to CentOS 6 or SL6 some time RSN.
IIRC, Fedora's pre-upgrade was failing because "/boot"'s default size is/was 200MB and the workaround was to clear out some space by keeping just one kernel and removing the "hidden space" allocated to root on "/boot".
We have to hope that this'll be taken into account and "/boot"'s default set larger if pre-upgrade's coming to CentOS 6. (Would pre-upgrade be to go from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7?!)