Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 242445
Grub writes wrong mbr
Last modified: 2008-06-17 01:12:15 EDT
Description of problem: After update from FC6 to F7 the the mbr is defective, I had to rewrite the grub bootloader, but after this, no boot was possible (a black/white grub menu appeared containing a wrong boot disk - the line was not editable). The I booted with knoppix and rewrote the grub bootloader so I could boot again properly with grub. But the if rewriting grub with grub-install in F7 destroys the bootloader again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-13 How reproducible: grub-install in F7 Steps to Reproduce: 1.grub-install --recheck --no-floppy /dev/sda 2. 3. Actual results: Bootloader buggy - cannot boot Expected results: Bootloader OK - can boot Additional info:
*** Bug 242449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Having troubles with an other system: After upgrade (write new grub loader), /boot/grub/menu.lst contains the old FC6 entry, and 2 identical F7 entries: title Fedora (2.6.20-1.2952.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img title Fedora-base (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img This seems to be an anaconda bug.
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Cannot be reproduced in F9!