Marcel Janssen wrote: > If re-installing is the only option than I'll stay with F7. I haven't read all this thread, but the title is certainly misleading. I upgraded from F7 to F8 with only one problem (see below), and the F8 system seems to be working perfectly. I followed what may be an unusual route; I transferred the KDE Live CD to a USB stick, and copied the DVD ISO to the hard disk. (I only have a DVD reader on 2 out of 6 machines, so it would hardly have been worth while burning the DVD.) On booting from the USB stick I was asked if I wanted to install or upgrade, and I chose upgrade. The process was remarkably fast, with about 900 packages updated in about 40 minutes (on a fairly old AMD64 machine). The one problem was that my old grub.conf was deleted, and the new one that was written had root (hd1,2) instead of (hd0,2) - presumably because during the upgrade the USB stick became hd0. However, it does seem to me a bug that there was no choice, as far as I could see, to specify that I wanted to keep the old grub root. Surely this should be the default when upgrading, anyway? Also I wasn't given the option, as I was with FC6 to F7, to update my old grub.conf . It seemed the upgrade deleted this whatever I said. This wasn't too great a problem, as I entered grub interactively and gave the correct root, and then edited grub.conf . (If this hadn't worked I would have booted with Knoppix and done the same.)
