From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: I just installed FC5T1. During the install when asked about the bootloader, choosing advanced options etc, I selected edit for the other operating system anaconda identifed. I wanted to change the name from Other to Windows XP, which I did. The install proceeded and finished. I reboot and I get the minimal grub bootloader (no menu like I should have gotten). When I fixed the problem the grub.conf file still had other instead of windows xp. I was installing FC5T1 from an IDE CD-ROM to a scsi hard drive. Windows XP is /dev/sda and Linux is /dev/sdb. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to install FC5T1 2. it fails to install grub 3. Actual Results: no grub menu like I am supposed to have. The changes I made during install were not kept. Expected Results: grub should have been installed and other should have been windows xp Additional info:
Anaconda still does not write the grub boot loader to my system. I still have to set it up manually.
Will anaconda write the grub bootloader for FC5T3?
Can I please get an update for this bug? To repeat: anaconda does not write the grub bootloader to the MBR so after the install I cannot boot.
I haven't seen anything like this here on any of my installs. What does /boot/grub/device.map and /boot/grub/grub.conf look like? Also (a little harder), what's the output on tty5 when we the boot loader is installed in anaconda?
# this device map was generated by anaconda (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda # 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 (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1948_FC5) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1948_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 lapic initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1948_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1939_FC5) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1939_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 lapic initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1939_FC5.img title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 As far as the output from tty5 I don't have that. If I get time tomorrow I will reinstall from the test 2 cds else if test3 is still going to be released on monday I will post those results.
I tried to reinstall FC5T2 today. When I switched windows my PC froze. Only the reset button was able to reboot the system. I will try to setup a webserver on my other PC, download the devel tree, burn the boot.iso, and install from that.
I tried todays boot.iso and my pc freezes when I switch windows. I opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181679 about this. Are you sure you meant F5? Before the freeze I was able to look at F5 and it was a blinking cursor. Also when during the install process does grub get written to the MBR so I can switch and look? Thanks, Jason
I installed FC5T3 today. Here is the information you requested. gnu grub 0.97 grub> root (hd1,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist grub> install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf Error 12: invalid device requested
This seems to still be an issue with test 3. The grub files were there and correct, but it seems like it wasn't installed properly. I got an Error 15 when booting, before I even got to the menu, so I couldn't boot my XP partition either. I had to boot the rescue CD and then run grub and enter the commands root (hd1,0) setup (hd0) in order to make the machine bootable.
I am seeing related problems. Note that my install uses a kickstart file and raid. My boot partition is RAID1, and when it attempts to install grub I see: Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure on tty5 Once I boot (after install), grub hangs. This is probably expected since grub had errors during install.
Ryan O'Hara's comment is a different issue, and should be fixed. This: <i>gnu grub 0.97 grub> root (hd1,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist</i> Looks like your device.map doesn't have hd1 listed, which is consistent with your comments above, but I can't reproduce it here. On the advanced bootloader configuration screen, is it actually showing both sda and sdb?
I will try it today and get back to you.
Yes it does. When it comes to creating the partition layout this is what I do: the screen that lists sda and sdb and has the options for remove all partitions, remove linux partitions, etc. I unselect sda (it is my winxp drive) then I select remove all linux partitions, and I select the review partition layout checkbox. Then I click on next. I change the layout to what I want (shrink the swap to 256) and click next. I then see the grub bootloader screen. I leave the defaults and click on next. I don't know if the above will help, but.... Thanks, Jason P.S. I am sorry it took so long to respond. I was trying the daily boot.iso but it has issues so I had to go back to the FC5T3 CD.
FC5 final still does not write the grub bootloader to the MBR of my system.
I installed the August 26th rawhide. I downloaded the boot.iso image and did a http install. I answered all of the questions, software downloaded, I rebooted when prompted, then windows XP booted. I dual boot between windows and fedora. Previously when I installed fedora I would get the minimal grub loader screen. As of todays install, grub does not even install. Windows XP is /dev/sda and fedora is /dev/sdb.
A reinstall of todays rawhide and I still have install grub manually.
I did a wipe and reinstall of October 17's rawhide and this bug is still here. There is at least one other user who has this same problem: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-October/msg00450.html I realize that it is too late to get this fixed for FC6 but this bug has been around for two years. Can someone please get around to fixing it?
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
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