On 06/06/2012 08:24 AM, A. Mani wrote:
> I tried to upgrade fedora 16 x86-64 via preupgrade a few days ago.
> After the first stage up to download of packages and installation of
> grub2 for the actual install process ... it went fine.
> The new grub2 entry was not bootable (known bug?), but anyway I
> modified it manually and started anaconda.

Known issue.  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs#preupgrade-grub

> The installer invariably crashed after ´wanting a network connection´
> (actually the machine connects manually to the Internet).
> All of the tricks including
> deletion of /etc/anaconda.repo and modification of the ks file did not work.

I am not aware of this.  Perhaps file a bug report.

> Fresh Install from dvd was ok... except for no support for encrypted btrfs.

Known issue since Btrfs support itself has regressed as a fallout of the
ongoing Anaconda changes.  However I would recommend against using Btrfs
in any production instance in any case since it doesn't have a fsck that
can fix errors yet.

> Grub2 of Kubuntu-12.04 cannot handle Fedora-17 entries at all.

No idea why

Rahul
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