Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

My laptop upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 with no apparent problems, and was
able to communicate wirelessly over the Broadcom chip. However, I would
use a cable for upgrading.

On 02/01/2010 01:33 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Anyone encounter any show stoppers in your upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to =
9.10?
>
> I always wait a few months before doing an Ubuntu version upgrade to le=
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> the bugs shake out. Though Ubuntu doesn't do the greatest job of fixing=
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> bugs within a release. Bug fixes tend to get pushed to the next release=
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> which unless they're security bugs, is probably by design, but can be=20
> rather inconvenient at times.
>
>
> In preparation for the upgrade, I noticed a note:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades#Unable%20to%20Load%20L=
inux%20Drive
>
> that the new release sometimes has problems booting from a root device =

> identified by UUID. They provided workarounds for both grub legacy and =

> grub2. The grub2 approach seemed cleaner, so I figured I'd start by=20
> implementing that upgrade.
>
> I read a few guides on this:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-grub-2-on-ubuntu-9.04
> http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/06/howto-upgrade-to-grub2-on-ubuntu-ja=
unty.html
>
> which noted that the grub2 upgrade script has some bugs and doesn't=20
> modify the legacy grub config file correctly when setting up grub2 to=20
> chain load for initial testing. These guides were many months old, but =

> sure enough, the bug still exists in the 9.04 repositories:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/376879
>
> They've fixed it in 9.10, but that doesn't help the people following th=
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> upgrade notes that sort of encourage upgrading to grub2 first.
>
>
> The other thing I saw noted were a bunch problems with proprietary=20
> nvidia drivers, which I happen to be using:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/464591
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+=
bug/438398
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+=
bug/474917
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-180/+=
bug/456637
>
>   -Tom
>
>  =20


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