Upgrade 8.04->9.10 fails: crash to tty, claims can't mount rootfs

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 08:56 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 02:19 +0100, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > So today I finally decided to upgrade to 9.10 from 8.04.
> > > Updates rolled in, I adapted config files, then had a minor
> > > annoyance with powernowd hanging during cleanup, killed the
> > > subprocess, update went on.
> >
> > I would think that such a large jump would be risky as heck. I went
> > from 8.04 to 9.10, but in stages, one at a time. :) Ric
> 
> The jump from _Kubuntu_ 8.04 to 9.10 should work, according to 
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades/Kubuntu/8.04>. I can't 
> say if it does though because I don't have any 8.04 system left.

You would have a set of old -dot- files left in your user directory and
your old fstab file would be been splattered REAL GOOD! :) Ric




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