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Rifester
October 17th, 2009, 03:42 PM
I recently updated from Jaunty to the beta version of Karmic. I love the changes! Great work and thank you to everybody that is working so hard on Ubuntu development. You should be proud! I did not perform a clean install as I had everything running perfect in Jaunty and set up just how I wanted it. Am I correct in my understanding that by NOT performing a clean install I will not be running the most current version of GRUB or ext4?
If this is true, are there any future negatives about this? Is performance effected by not doing a clean install? Thanks for your help/advice as this was the first update of my system.
Mark
mac9416
October 17th, 2009, 04:38 PM
Am I correct in my understanding that by NOT performing a clean install I will not be running the most current version of GRUB or ext4?
Yes, to the best of my knowledge, that's correct. However, you can upgrade GRUB by following these instructions (http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/06/howto-upgrade-to-grub2-on-ubuntu-jaunty.html).
I'm afraid you can't move to ext4 without reinstalling, though.
Hope that helps!
Rifester
October 17th, 2009, 04:58 PM
Thanks for the instructions!
Rifester
October 17th, 2009, 09:35 PM
I followed the GRUB update instructions perfectly. I did a test boot from the chainload menu and everything booted up. So I:
$sudo upgrade-from-grub-legacy
Everything ran fine in terminal. I rebooted the system and now I get grub error 15 and the system locks up. I had to dig out my Jaunty live disk to get online. PLEASE HELP!
mac9416
October 17th, 2009, 10:40 PM
Sorry about that, I hadn't tested that tutorial, and I hope it's OK.
Others have had this problem. Someone found this fix (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3106892.0).
$ sudo update-grub2
Hopefully that fixes it.
QIII
October 17th, 2009, 11:48 PM
Yes, to the best of my knowledge, that's correct. However, you can upgrade GRUB by following these instructions (http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/06/howto-upgrade-to-grub2-on-ubuntu-jaunty.html).
I'm afraid you can't move to ext4 without reinstalling, though.
Hope that helps!
Actually, you can change to ext4.
http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-upgrade-from-ext3-to-ext4-without-formatting-the-hard-disk/2009/04/21
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