Bug 473160 - Installer replaced MBR with unconfigured grub
Summary: Installer replaced MBR with unconfigured grub
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 10
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-26 20:41 UTC by Philip Sherman
Modified: 2009-05-18 15:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-05-18 15:35:25 UTC
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Description Philip Sherman 2008-11-26 20:41:23 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111317 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.4

Installed Fedora 10 on IBM T40 laptop using custom configuration. /boot on /dev/sda2, root (/) on existing LVM drive. Specified NOT to install a boot loader. At end of installation, MBR contained an unconfigured grub which prohibited booting the machine. 

Problem fixed by restoring the original (pre Fedora 10) MBR. Existing grub.conf at /boot/grub (sda2) modified to include new Fedora 10 installation which booted ok.

Reproducible: Didn't try

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Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2008-12-02 17:59:19 UTC
Please attach /var/log/anaconda.log and /var/log/anaconda.syslog to this bug report.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Philip Sherman 2008-12-04 19:47:33 UTC
Logs presently unavailable. I'll have to repeat the install to recreate them. It will be 5-7 days until I can do this.

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2009-05-18 15:35:25 UTC
If you're able to reproduce this bug with F11, please reopen with the log files and we'll be able to work on debugging this one.  Major amounts of work have happened regarding partitioning and bootloader installation, so it's probably this bug is fixed.  Thanks.


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