On 3/17/13, Patrick Dupre <Patrick.Dupre(a)univ-littoral.fr&gt; wrote: > the problem is that the update to fedora 17 failed (probably) because the > /usr /usr/lib and / > partitions need to be on the same partition! Fedora 17+ supports a separate /usr just fine. It's the separate /usr/lib that's screwing it up. (I suspect the upgrade process isn't mounting /usr/lib.) Since this is not a common configuration, you'll need to do a little extra work to accomplish an upgrade. You need to instruct dracut to mount the necessary partitions during early boot. To do so, create a file /etc/fstab.sys and copy the lines for /, /usr, and /usr/lib from /etc/fstab to it. Then, create a file /etc/dracut.conf.d/02-fstab-sys.conf with this line: add_dracutmodules += " fstab-sys " (Note that spaces inside the quotation marks; they are necessary.) You can then follow the yum upgrade instructions here to update to Fedora 17: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_... -T.C. -- users mailing list users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org