Bug 521113

Created attachment 359711 [details]
grub.conf with concatenation problem

Hmmmm....msg from bz that attachment failed....trying again

To save our heroic bug triagers some time: I'll take this one.

Hmm, I cannot reproduce this, did you do anything special during the installation ?

Can you reproduce it yourself? (By doing another install)

I don't believe I did anything special.  I try to use the same routine for every install...selinux=0, radeon.modeset=0 (nomodeset hasn't been working) custom layout, mounting some predetermined ext3 and 4 partitions, mounting my home LV parition, formatting / lv as ext4 and boot parition as ext3.  I did repeat the install and the same concatenation occurred on both attempts.

I will try again this AM.

Two tests, all using the 20090903 boot.iso and method=http://mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/development/x86_64/os

1)  boot parms (in addition to default): selinux=0 radeon.modeset=0 method=http://<as above>

formatted /boot on /dev/sdf8, / on lv, mounted some other LVs and /dev/sdf partitions, took default install

result: 
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64)
	root (hd0,7)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Fedora12 rhgb quietLANG=en_US.UTF-8SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
	initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64.img

2)  boot parms (in addition to default): selinux=0 nomodeset method=http://<as above>

formatted /boot on /dev/sdf8, / on lv, mounted some other LVs and /dev/sdf partitions, took default install

result: 
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64)
	root (hd0,7)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Fedora12 nomodeset rhgb quietLANG=en_US.UTF-8SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
	initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.199.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64.img

and now an attempt on a F11 VM with a plain vanilla standard partition configuration, boot.iso and boot parms same as 2) in comment 5 and the result is the same as test 2).

issue still present with rawhide 20090905 and its boot.iso. Tried both VM and regular installs.

Interesting thing is, I don't see any errors at boot time except for the raid grep issue which doesn't seem to affect my raid arrays.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,7)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Fedora12
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sdf8
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,7)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.203.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64)
	root (hd0,7)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.203.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-Fedora12 nomodeset rhgb quietLANG=en_US.UTF-8SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
	initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.203.rc8.git2.fc12.x86_64.img

Ah, my bad I was reproducing this with a too old version. I've got the problem now, and a fix is on its way.

Thanks for your perseverance.

This is fixed by this commit:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commitdiff;h=30c28b26233dd70a74ad69c7e7056643bb667b43

Which will be in anaconda-12.22-1, which will hit rawhide in a couple of days.

*** Bug 523620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***