Just upgraded my SMP box from 9.1RC1 -> Bamboo.  

It failed.  Spectacularly - unable to boot as a result of a crash while
upgrading the kernel package!

The problem was my root partition - I had quite a bunch of kernels in
there (my fault, I need to spring clean more often).  The machine has
1GB of memory, so the default install peels off the "normal" kernel, SMP
and Enterprise.  I think DrakX needs to check more carefully the
available space - If I was a non-hacker type user and had upgraded
8.2->9->9.1->... then it is quite likely I'd accumulate a *lot* of old
kernels..  I think any recent Windows refugee would find this pretty
disturbing (Grub loaded the bootstrap, but couldn't find the initrd in
my case).

This was actually easy for me to recover, of course.  When I cleaned up
and re-applied the "upgrade", it only gave me the option to upgrade from
Dolphin, BTW.  So a broken 9.0/9.1/9.1RC1 system looks like 8.2 to
DrakX!

Cheers
/Kevin
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