[mythtv-users] upgrade Fedora 9 to 12?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2010-02-16 19:35, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:52 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> ...
>>> F12 wants about 300Meg for /boot. I used 50 iirc on F6 through F8 and 75 Meg
>>> for F10. On this desktop (F12) I dropped /boot. It was easier all round.
>>
>> nb: the reason for the relatively hefty /boot is to make Fedora's
>> pre-upgrade utility viable. pre-upgrade needs enough space to stash an
>> anaconda image that runs about 175MB or so, iirc, so that plus room
>> for a few kernels gets you the suggested /boot minimum of 300MB.
>
> Of course there's no room elsewhere on the system. I can explain why
> this choice is absurd, especially when upgrading.

And I can explain why it isn't. /boot is the only mount point
guaranteed to be 99.999% automatically discoverable and mountable.
What if / is on lvm? Or software RAID? You lose, because the driver
modules necessary to bring up those types of file systems are in the
anaconda initrd that you're trying to load.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com