Description of problem: When /boot/upgrade is symlinked to another partition, preupgrade does not detect that. 1) Required diskspace is as reported on other (non-boot) partition. 2) Files for /boot/upgrade cannot leave the physical partition since the upgrade will not be able to boot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm -q preupgrade preupgrade-1.1.0-1.fc10.noarch How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1) rm -rf /boot/upgrade 2) ln -s /path/to/other/partition/upgrade /boot/upgrade 3) start pre-upgrade 4) restart system Actual results: grub reports "error 15: file not found" (which is correct, partition is not mounted yet). Expected results: 1) preupgrade should refuse install the files for /boot/upgrade on any another physical partition than /boot. 2) The user should be appropriately warned why it refuses to do so. 3) The space requirements for /boot should be communicated to the user, instead of "not enough space". (This is a side-issue to this bug report, but relevant in combination with point 2.) Additional info: A similar problem with other directories is described in bug 505602.
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