Bug 732076

Summary:	grub2 spends one hour trying to read non-existent floppy disk
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	cornel panceac <cpanceac>
Component:	grub2	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dennis, jik, lkundrak, mads, pjones
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Description cornel panceac 2011-08-19 17:33:22 UTC

Description of problem:
at the end of f16 rc5 i586 dvd install, grub2 tried for about an hour to do something with an non-existent fd0, then failed to install onto the partition's boot sector. unfortunately, this meant the newly installed system is not booting without further actions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
the version from f16 alpha rc5 x86 dvd

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install default graphical system package selection on a custom partition (sda7, here) using f16 alpha rc5 x86 dvd
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Actual results:
at the end of the install, grub2 requires one hour to fail on detecting floppy disk / drive and also to fail to install on the target partition's boot sector


Expected results:
i expect for grub2 to figure out that the device or disk is missing and proceed further in a very short time (several seconds). i also expect grub2 to install on the boot sector even if the floppy drive or disk is not present.

Additional info:
the output in ctrl-alt-f4 is similar tot the one i reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493377

the install target was the boot (and root) partition's boot sector (sda7).

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-09-16 19:07:59 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Jonathan Kamens 2011-10-07 08:08:16 UTC

Workaround: run /sbin/grub2-mkdevicemap before running /sbin/grub2-install.

Comment 3 Jonathan Kamens 2011-10-07 08:08:45 UTC

(with --no-floppy, that is. Apparently grub2-install isn't passing --no-floppy to grub2-mkdevicemap?)

Comment 4 Mads Kiilerich 2011-10-17 20:55:52 UTC

anaconda should now
1. first write device.map (but not by invoking mkdevicemap)
2. run grub2-install with --no-floppy

Do that work for you on this machine?