Description of problem: Yesterday (5/13/2008) I upgraded a fully patched Fedora 8 x86_64 to Fedora 9 x86_64 via DVD image. My partition scheme is: /dev/sda - 500 GB /dev/sda1 - ext2 - 100MB /boot /dev/sda2 - ntfs - 499GB /mnt/windows /dev/sdb - 500 GB /dev/sdb1 - ext3 - 30GB / /dev/sdb2 - LVM - 470GB /home During the installation I was prompted to migrate the /boot (/dev/sda1) partition to a newer filesystem. (later I found out it just upgrades it to ext3). It was the only filesystem in the list. I did select it. When the installation completed, the disk popped out and I was prompted to reboot. Upon rebooting, I got a neverending stream of GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB across the screen scrolling, probably forever. The workaround was to re-insert the disk, go into rescue mode, chroot into /mnt/sysimage and then run "grub-install /dev/sda". So I'm assuming it may have erroneously picked /dev/sdb or something similar during install since my root partition was there? How reproducible: Not sure. I only did this upgrade once. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have an ext2 /boot partition on /dev/sda1 2. Have / and all other partitions on /dev/sdb 3. Attempt upgrade of Fedora 8 (x86_64 only?) to Fedora 9 and when prompted, allow it to upgrade the filesystem. Actual results: Grub either doesn't run grub-install if already present so that it would pick up the change to ext3 or it erroneously runs grub-install against /dev/sdb Expected results: Grub would continue to function without manual intervention after the install. Additional info:
*** Bug 448132 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 447323 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
After upgrading a F9 installation via DVD to F10, I was left with only the grub shell.I had selected to upgrade the bootloader in the installer. After booting manually and executing grub-install, the menu was there again.
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I just upgraded from Fedora 10 to 11 with the same result again. I used anaconda and let it update the bootloader. After the reboot I got only the grub-shell again. The fix was also to boot the rescue system and running grub-install again. So could someone please change the version of this bug to Fedora 11?
I can confirm this behavior too on upgrade using the "recommended" upgrade bootloader. This is on the same machine as my initial report. I did not have the recursive "grubgrubgrub" problem, but I did get the grub> prompt and had to grub-install from rescue. Initial report drives updated, similar layout though: /dev/sda - 1 TB /dev/sda1 - ntfs - 499GB /mnt/windows/C /dev/sda2 - ext3 - 100MB /boot /dev/sdb - 1 TB /dev/sdb1 - ext3 - 30GB / /dev/sdb2 - LVM - 850GB /home
I had a similar problem with 5 out of 7 of our machines. I think the common link is the presence of a second disk in the machines which failed. I found that if I opted to create a new bootloader configuration then by default anaconda tried to install grub into the MBR of /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda which is my primary boot device. Changing this manually to /dev/sda gave me a machine on which grub was correctly installed. I'm guessing that in the case of updating the existing bootloader anaconda also picked the wrong device but didn't offer an option to change it so grub was installed to a disk which wasn't the boot device, hence the subsequent errors. I'm not sure how anaconda works out which is the boot device, but I suspect that is where this bug originates.
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