[indiana-discuss] grub broken on upgrade from 98 -> 99

[James Cornell]

98 -> 99 (Indiana via image update) worked fine for me, I was on B90  
for a while and couldn't ever get it updated to B91 (LU on SXCE), so  
there's apparently a few releases that are not going to be friendly to  
upgrade.

James
On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Karl Hakimian wrote:

>> Upon further investigation, the successful machines
>> all started from the build 95 LiveDVD; whereas, the
>> failed machine started from the 0805 LiveCD (build
>> 86), then step-wisely image-updated to 98, and then
>> 99.
>
> I'll add my datapoint to this. A machine that has been step-wisely  
> updated from indiana preview through 98 (with only a few bumps along  
> the way) did not boot after this upgrade. Reading the forums (before  
> I tried) I thought about doing the grub update before the reboot,  
> but I was curious to find out if that would really be necessary. I  
> had upgraded grub after a zpool upgrade not too long ago.
>
> The good news is after the update_grub command suggested here, all  
> was well.
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