On Wed, 2023-12-06 at 01:29 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2023-12-05 at 13:29 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Crossed my fingers and did it. All good. > > Close your fingers and cross your eyes, flash the firmware for a big > surprise... > > Reminds me that I ought to get a spare drive, I just used my spare > one > in something. When it comes to system updates, and drive firmware is > in the same boat, I prefer doing a drive swap. Remove old, fit new, > apply all the new software, add the old drive and either drag data to > the new drive, or use it as the data drive. I completely distrust > install new releases over old.
I made some effort to anticipate disaster by copying my /, /boot and /boot/efi partitions to a spare drive (and modifying its /etc/fstab appropriately), but it didn't work. No doubt I would have needed to update the EFI partition, but felt that was a bridge too far and I could in a pinch recover with a Live ISO (all local modifications are backed up anyway). Of course if I hadn't gone through all this rigmarole then Murphy's Law dictates that the firmware update would have wiped the SSD, so I decided to consider it as a way to propitiate the gods. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
