[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Sun Jul 22 04:03:37 CEST 2012


'Twas brillig, and Charles A Edwards at 22/07/12 02:28 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:12:58 +0100
> Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 
>> Here is how to update your cauldron systems:
>>
>>  1. Run "urpmi --auto-update" install everything that can be
>> installed. 2. Ensure that latest dracut is installed. Run "urpmi
>> dracut" to make sure (it may have been excluded in the --auto-update
>> if it was in a transaction with other packages that could not be
>> installed). 3. Ensure that you do not have zapata or dpkg installed
>> (rpm -e zapata; rpm -e dpkg)
> 
> After installing all the updates if I then install a new kernel will I
> need to make any adjustments or will it creat a proper and bootable
> initrd during installation?

If the updates installed a new kernel, then you can either adjust the
dracut command I gave to mention the specific initrd name and kernel
version, or just reboot as normal first and run the dracut command in
the fresh boot.

HTHs

Col




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