On 15-08-13 08:53 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
Actually, the LTS update path is from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS as one
step. There was no LTS between these. Perhaps less visible is that
the first time migration is suggested is when 14.04.1 LTS was
released, not 14.04. So no, what I did was purely by the book.
Ubuntu understands and promotes the LTS-only approach
I just felt safer stepping through all the versions between where I was the
where I wanted to be. Mainly this was from when I had been on Fedora. Might
be easier if they properly support jumping from LTS to LTS.
It turns out that the "grub rescue>" prompt isn't totally useless.
Most of the Grub machinery isn't available, but there is enough that
one might be able to climb out of the hole.
Under grub 1 some built in commands/features let you get grub to boot the
machine either after a kernel update or a typo slipped in to grubs boot
menu. I can't recall having ever used a grub prompt to get a machine to boot
since I was forced to start using grub 2.
I may be partly lucky. It may be due to my trying to avoid touching the
grub.cfg file now that grub 2 made its boot configuration files so
complicated compared to the ones used with grub 1.
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