[olug] Boot error updating F14 to F16

[Lou Duchez]

I've upgraded multiple servers through successive iterations of Fedora, 
using "yum" every time, going back to about Fedora 8.  The 
powers-that-be may not officially support the method, but it does work, 
at least most of the time.  (Sounds more like the powers-that-be don't 
want to be responsible if something goes wrong.)

I would love to give advice on how to deal with the error at hand, 
except the only time I've gotten bitten was when I forgot to update the 
bootloader before rebooting, and I didn't manage to fix that.  Which 
unfortunately seems to be the issue here.  If I'm saying anything at 
all, I guess it's that upgrading was not inherently a mistake; if the 
bootloader can be fixed by someone who knows what they're doing, things 
may well turn out fine.

> I recall hearing some grumbling a while back about Fedora saying that 
> upgrades (versus clean installs) were not supported.  As usual, my 
> recollections can be quite faulty, your mileage may vary, et cetera.
>