Bug 456238

Summary:	Grub hangs after a kernel update on a RAID 1 system
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	giuseppe.angilella
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9
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Description giuseppe.angilella 2008-07-22 13:07:17 UTC

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Description of problem:
I have a machine with two disks mirrored with the RAID 1 option (at the controller level). Fedora 9 installs nicely, but after a complete "yum update", including a kernel update and (presumably) an update of the master boot record, at the successive reboot, Grub runs in text mode and is not able to load even the (default) Windows system.

Booting from the installation DVD in rescue mode allows to see that both /etc/grub.conf and /etc/fstab have been modified. Execution of grub-install or 

grub --device-map=/dev/null
device (hd0) /dev/mapper/isw_jfhegebb_Volume0
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)
quit

does not fix the problem.

Supposedly, the automatic kernel update procedure modifies the MBR on one of the two discs only.

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


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install again Fedora 9.
2. Run yum update (including a kernel update)
3. Reboot.

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


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Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 02:10:40 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:10:50 UTC

Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 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no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 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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