Bug 117802 - Install disks rescue mode should offer quick bootloader repair
Summary: Install disks rescue mode should offer quick bootloader repair
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-08 19:07 UTC by Rick Wagner
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-14 21:11:36 UTC
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Description Rick Wagner 2004-03-08 19:07:57 UTC
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Description of problem:
My experience, and talking with others, one of the hardest rescue
operations is repairing a non-booting system.  

After a recent non-booting situation, I had to resolve by re-upgrading
FC-1 on top of a just upgraded FC-1 (a procedure which eventually
worked, but had other problems).

The rescue mode offers a command prompt, and access to GRUB commands,
but no rescue operation; just poking and proding with GRUB commands
(which never solved the problem for me).

Better would be a bootloader repair tool (and ideally a suite of tools
to fix common problems) offered in rescue mode.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Go into rescure mode, try to learn about GRUB from scratch, and repair
a broken boot.

Actual Results:  In my case it failed.

Expected Results:  Would hope to run a repair tool, which which after
a few Q & A, would fix my unbootable system.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ed Bailey 2004-03-11 19:35:43 UTC
Changing the component, as this has nothing to do with fedora-release...


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