Bug 222987

Summary:	when attempting to write grub, unhandled exception occurs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mutlu Dogruel <truehand>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6
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OS:	Linux
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Description Mutlu Dogruel 2007-01-17 11:51:38 UTC

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. When re-installing Fedora 6 (without re-formatting partitions) 
this problem occurs every time, in the first time installation it didn't happen,
though.
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Actual results:

At the end of the installation, grub gives an unhandled exception and it doesn't
install at all.

Expected results:


Additional info:

File "/usr/lib/booty/bootloaderinfo.py", line 738, in "writeGrub"
also in line 1188, in "write"
...

Comment 1 Mutlu Dogruel 2007-01-17 19:06:58 UTC

Grub attempted to write to a partition, /boot, that was removed (accidentally).
When "upgrade install" is selected the Feodra installer Anaconda must check if
/boot is there and writable to avoid a disappointment at the end of installation.