[Novalug] 'upgrade' problems

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun Oct 27 18:43:11 EDT 2013


Without knowing the specifics you can hit [tab] during boot and maybe
select the other partition to boot.

Otherwise it is an involved change to grub to know where the boot partition
is and other bits of info.
 On Oct 27, 2013 6:31 PM, "Nino R. Pereira" <ninorpereira@gmail.com> wrote:

> List,
>
> Saturday I updated the OS on my computer 'cause Ubuntu had announced
> version 13.10 was available:
> I was happily running 13.04. I did the standard sequence apt-get update,
> upgrade, and dist-upgrade,
> and at the end of all this I realized I was working with Ubuntu 12.04: I
> had decided some time ago
> that this version didn't work well for me. Still, I had left it on half
> the disk, and made a new
> install on the other half. Apparently, I had booted up the wrong OS
> without noticing it, after
> I had turned off the computer when I went on vacation.
>
> My question now is: how do I select a reboot into 13.04, and upgrade this?
>
> I noticed the problem because the name of the terminal differs from what
> I'm used to,
> and because the backup information has some recent changes that I no
> longer see in the
> files that Ubuntu 12.04 looks at.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nino
>
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