From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040407 Description of problem: Bad: The problem seems to be related to the infamous double boot issue, but the appearance is exactly opposite: after upgrading from FC1 to FC2, I can only boot to WinXP, as grub.conf has no other entries. sfdisk in rescue mode duly complains that "extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary", but all the sfdisk re-write tricks fail with "unrecognized input". Don't know what to do more. That's a blocker. Good: Well, contrary to others, I haven't lost the Windows partition ;-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): whatever comes with FC2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a WinXP Pro PC 2. Install FC1 as another boot 3. Upgrade to FC2 - bingo, no Linux can be booted Actual Results: Grub screen only says: DOS Expected Results: Grub screen should say Fedora Core 2 kernel whatever DOS Additional info: No error messages, simply no Fedora. Rescue disk finds it though.
Can you attach what your grub.conf looked like before?
Nope, it's gone and I have no backup. But I figured one thing meanwhile, which would perhaps make this bug invalid, or get it re-assigned elsewhere: actually, the kernel didn't install properly, as it failed, complaining that "no module ieee1394 found for kernel", hence mkinitrd failed. I found it in /root/upgrade.log - just these two lines. No complaints were produced on screen during the upgrade itself. So, no surprise Linux is not in grub.conf. But sfdisk still produces wrong partition start warnings - even though kernel installation failed. Would it mean this is not a kernel problem but an anaconda one? And by the way, I can not re-install the kernel even after editing /etc/modprobe.conf to comment out the firewire module - still complains about the ieee1394 module. And by the other way, I'd love to have a firewire support - can I roll back to FC1?.. ... running Knoppix with 2.6.x kernel meanwhile, all works...
Latest progress: I installed the latest 2.6.6 kernel version - it went fine except the fact that grubby failed for not finding a suitable template, whatever it means. The system loaded manually just fine, so I dared to edit grub.conf by hand, and well, my problems are solved: I have double boot working like charm. But I won't close the bug, as FC2 upgrade messed my grub.conf and can not recover it (I even tried to re-upgrade with configuring the loader anew, but it only explained me that there is no Linux on my system, doh!)
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Closing per previous comment and lack of response. Also note that FC1 and FC2 are no longer supported even by Fedora Legacy.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124246 ***