Bug 242445

Summary: Grub writes wrong mbr
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Joachim Backes <joachim.backes>
Component: grubAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
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Description Joachim Backes 2007-06-04 10:52:53 UTC
Description of problem:
After update from FC6 to F7 the the mbr is defective, I had to rewrite the grub
bootloader, but after this, no boot was possible (a black/white grub menu
appeared containing a wrong boot disk - the line was not editable).

The I booted with knoppix and rewrote the grub bootloader so I could boot again
properly with grub. But the if rewriting grub with grub-install in F7 destroys
the bootloader again. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub-0.97-13


How reproducible:
grub-install in F7

Steps to Reproduce:
1.grub-install --recheck --no-floppy /dev/sda
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Bootloader buggy  - cannot boot

Expected results:

Bootloader OK - can boot
Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-06-04 18:26:48 UTC
*** Bug 242449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Joachim Backes 2007-06-08 05:51:24 UTC
Having troubles with an other system: After upgrade (write new grub loader),
/boot/grub/menu.lst contains the old FC6 entry, and 2 identical F7 entries:

title Fedora (2.6.20-1.2952.fc6)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet
title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img

This seems to be an anaconda bug.


Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:46:24 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:23:50 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug. 

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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 5 Joachim Backes 2008-06-17 05:12:15 UTC
Cannot be reproduced in F9!