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. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick