Bug 444490
| Summary: | "Missing operating system" at boot after install to external gpt EFI drive (Intel Macintosh) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Reiser <jreiser> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | cward, ma, mlists, psj |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-06-28 10:35:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 235705 | ||
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Description
John Reiser
2008-04-28 17:30:10 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Does this still happen with the final release of F9? Yes, "Missing operating system" still happens with F9. Moving to Fedora 10 Alpha release DVD, I still cannot boot the installed system. Booting with Option key held down (this is an Apple Macintosh Mini with Intel Core Duo [not Core _2_ Duo] i686 CPU), I see two harddrive icons (one labeled MacOS and one labeled Windows), two Firewire icons (one labeled with the MacOS volume name for an external hfs+ partition with MacOS installed, one labeled Windows), and one optical media icon (labeled Windows: the Fedora 10 DVD Alpha release). It seems to me that the three icons labeled Windows are somehow related to Fedora. Selecting the harddrive icon, then booting it, gives "Missing operating system", then wait forever. Selecting the Firewire icon, then booting it, gives a 15 second timeout with no response (fullscreen gray background and icons still displayed, mouse frozen), then a black screen for 5 seconds, then a blank screen (no video); this is a crash. Selecting the optical media icon, then booting it, gives the Fedora 10 DVD installer again. As a guess, the harddrive icon labeled Windows is supposed to be the new Fedora system, but the spindle is wrong: the icon is for an internal harddrive, but I put Fedora on an external harddrive. As another guess, the firewire icon labeled Windows is supposed to be the new Fedora system, but the boot software is not right. Looking at mounted partition 1 of the internal drive with "find /sdb1" I see ----- /sdb1 /sdb1/efi /sdb1/efi/apple /sdb1/efi/apple/EXTENSIONS /sdb1/efi/apple/EXTENSIONS/Firmware.scap ----- which is what boots MacOSX [at least from the internal harddrive.] Looking at mounted partition 1 of the external drive with "find /sda1" I see ----- /sda1 ----- i.e., there are no files there. Instead, they are in /sda4/boot/efi, which is part of the new Fedora root filesystem on partition 4. So, I move those files from /sda4/boot/efi into /sda1: ----- /sda1 /sda1/efi /sda1/efi/efi /sda1/efi/efi/redhat /sda1/efi/efi/redhat/grub.efi ----- and try booting, but I still get blank screen crash. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Is this still an issue in F11 Beta? ~Attention~ This bug appears to pertain to an important F11 feature, EFI, which the Fedora Community will be testing in an upcoming Fedora Test Day. Your participation in the action would be greatly appreciated! More information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-04-09 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI The problem persists in Fedora 11 Beta i386 DVD. I updated my F10 machine (MBP w/ rEFIt) to F11 rawhide using the recommended 'preupgrade' method. After reboot, I got "missing operating system". I figured out that what I needed to do was to run rEFIt's EFI to MBR partition table synchronization routine. So, this must mean that the upgrade messed with the partition table. Note to Mr. Anaconda: my partition table was fine before, thanks, please don't mess with it on upgrades. I'm not sure if it was just bug 478762's boot flag or something else, I didn't expect to need to diff a before and after so I'm not sure what it changed. Before and after the machine does boot properly. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 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. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |