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Bug#475958: where to post the updated procedure ?



Dear Martin,

On 17/10/08 00:38, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> I will put the current text into the release notes subversion
> archive in the next 12 hours. You could then post diffs to the
> debian-doc mailing list or to the BTS. Is this OK for you?

you can find in attachment the patch to apply to manuals/branches/release-notes/lenny/en/upgrading.dbk rev.5421 in order to include the corrections proposed by Andrei Popescu.






--- upgrading.dbk	2008-10-18 16:15:13.000000000 +0200
+++ upgrading.dbk_new	2008-10-18 16:30:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -6585,15 +6585,6 @@
   <section id="how-to-recover">
     <title>How to recover from the problem after the upgrade</title>
 
-    <note>
-      <title>Preliminary remark</title>
-      <para>
-	Once you have successfully applied one of the solutions below,
-	you should consider applying one of the two appoaches above to
-	get definitely rid of this issue.
-    </para>
-    </note>
-
     <section id="solution1">
       <title>Solution 1</title>
       <para>
@@ -6644,30 +6635,9 @@
 	</listitem>
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>
-	    If this solution worked. Login to your system, make a
-	    backup of the <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename>
-	    file. Then generate a new
-	    <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> by issuing with
-	    root privileges the command <command>update-grub</command>
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and make
-	    sure all occurences of
-	    <literal>hd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal> were
-	    replaced by
-	    <literal>sd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>. There
-	    is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
-
-	    <screen>root            (hd0,0)</screen>
-
-	    just leave it as it is.
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Reboot your system, it should reboot correctly.
+	    Now that your system has booted, you need to fix this issue permanently.
+	    Jump to the section "How to avoid the problem before upgrading" and apply
+	    one of the two proposed procedures.
 	  </para>
 	</listitem>
       </orderedlist>
@@ -6721,45 +6691,12 @@
 	which partition to mount).
       </para>
 
-      <orderedlist>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Make a backup of the
-	    <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> file. Then
-	    generate a new <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> by
-	    issuing with root privileges the command
-	    <command>update-grub</command>
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and make
-	    sure all occurences of
-	    <literal>hd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>
-	    (<replaceable>X</replaceable> is a letter among
-	    <literal>a</literal>, <literal>b</literal>,
-	    <literal>c</literal> or <literal>d</literal> depending of
-	    your system) were replaced by
-	    <literal>sd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>. There
-	    is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
-
-	    <screen>root            (hd0,0)</screen>
-
-	    just leave it as it is.
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Type <literal>exit</literal> to leave the rescue shell
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Select <literal>reboot</literal>, it should reboot
-	    correctly.
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-      </orderedlist>
+      <para>
+	Jump to the section "How to avoid the problem before upgrading" and apply one
+	of the two proposed procedures to fix the problem parmanently. Then type 'exit'
+	to leave the rescue shell and select 'reboot' for rebooting the system as
+	usual. (Don't forget to remove the bootable media)
+      </para>
     </section>
 
     <section id="solution3">
@@ -6830,33 +6767,8 @@
 	</listitem>
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>
-	    If it boots correctly, login, make a backup of the
-	    <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> file. Then
-	    generate a new <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> by
-	    issuing with root privileges the command
-	    <command>update-grub</command>
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and make
-	    sure all occurences of
-	    <literal>hd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>
-	    (<replaceable>X</replaceable> is a letter among
-	    <literal>a</literal>, <literal>b</literal>,
-	    <literal>c</literal> or <literal>d</literal> depending of
-	    your system) were replaced by
-	    <literal>sd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>. There
-	    is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
-
-	    <screen>root            (hd0,0)</screen>
-
-	    just leave it as it is.
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Reboot your system, it should reboot correctly.
+	    When it has booted, apply one of the two proposed procedures under "How to
+	    avoid the problem before upgrading" to fix the problem permanently.
 	  </para>
 	</listitem>
       </orderedlist>

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