From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Installing Fc4 rc3 from scrach on partition hda2 while Xp exists on hda1 the grub fails to load the boot menou on boot: GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.] That's what I see when booting up! I tryed booting on rescue mode and then chrooot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/hda I see no change although /boot/grub.conf exists and the options are setup correctly... It looks like grub can't read grub.conf or pass any changes made to it... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Setup or have installed Xp on hda1 2.Install fc4 rc3 x64 on hda2 from dvd with grub enabled 3.bootup Actual Results: grub fails to install properly gives grub minimal bash like command line Expected Results: Grub boot up and give the boot options Fedora Other or show a message that fedora will automaticly bootup in 5 secs Additional info:
I seem to have had the same problem. WinXP installed on hda, FC4 installed on hdb. Grub installed on hda, but it does not automatically load grub.conf. I could proceed by typing: configfile /grub/grub.conf So grub had correctly found /boot and mounted it as /, but still it couldn't find the config file. Per discussion on fedora-test-list, typing as root: root (hd1,0) setup (hd0) Corrected the problem. I suspect anaconda is not properly setting up grub on multi-disk systems where FC is not on disk 1?
Note that my configuration was FC4/x86, not x86_64.
For what it's worth, I had the same symptoms with FC4 final with a kickstart file that told the bootloader the incorrect hard drive, e.g.: bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet" part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=hda ... This was of course a cockpit error. I fixed it using the notes above.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I had this problem again when I installed FC6/x86, so this bug should not be closed.
Fedora Core 3 and Fedora Core 4 are no longer supported. If you could retest this issue on a current release or on the latest development / test version, we would appreciate that. Otherwise, this bug will be marked as CANTFIX one month from now. Thanks for your help and for your patience.
Matthew, please see my comment on 2007-01-22 confirming that the bug exists on FC6.
Thank you; sorry for the run-around (there's a lot of old bugs like this that need attention). Moving to FC6.
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