On 6 February 2014 12:40, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > L. V. Lammert [l...@omnitec.net] wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, davy wrote: >> >> > Can I do a 4.1 -> 5.4 in one shot? >> > >> Nope. One version at a time, .. though the better solution would be to do >> a fresh install and copy data. >> > > What I'm recommending isn't really an upgrade so much as using the old > box to bootstrap a newest snapshot. As long as the bootblocks are still > compatible, you can do it. >
And, surprise!, boot blocks do change. 5.5 will be an example as things are rearranged and unified. .... Ken