Bug 703260 - Fedora bootloader incompatible with Debian/Ubuntu bootloader
Summary: Fedora bootloader incompatible with Debian/Ubuntu bootloader
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-09 18:55 UTC by Mikhail
Modified: 2012-08-08 23:30 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-08-08 17:24:23 UTC
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yet another problem mail (14.87 KB, application/mbox)
2012-02-06 12:15 UTC, Mikhail
no flags Details

Description Mikhail 2011-05-09 18:55:43 UTC
Description of problem:
After Fedora installation in boot menu Debian/Ubuntu is unavailable. Fedoras installer rewrite Debian bootloader, but Fedoras bootloader couldn't see another Linux OS such as Debian and Ubuntu.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Ubuntu
2. Install Debian
3. Install Fedora
  
Actual results:
After Fedora installation in boot menu Debian/Ubuntu is unavailable.

Expected results:
After Fedora installation in boot menu also must be available Debian/Ubuntu.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-09-16 19:08:14 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2011-12-08 20:36:03 UTC
I believe grubby 8.4 ought to fix this, when it lands in Rawhide, thanks to these two patches from Lucas Rodrigues:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=grubby.git;a=commit;h=f1e780b61fdf922b4d73b671c4c355650ee6e9fa
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=grubby.git;a=commit;h=2a48c733b03870b5550b82beefe1062eee39e28e

but we'll need to test it to make sure.



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Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2011-12-08 20:56:01 UTC
actually...probably not, since we use os-prober via grub2-mkconfig in anaconda, not grubby. doh.

Comment 4 Mikhail 2012-02-06 08:20:32 UTC
If I install after Fedora Debian, 'yum update' couldn't able update list of kernels in the boot menu.

Comment 5 Mikhail 2012-02-06 12:15:10 UTC
Created attachment 559624 [details]
yet another problem mail

Comment 6 Mikhail 2012-02-06 14:15:58 UTC
Ups... please delete my above attachment.

Comment 7 Peter Jones 2012-08-08 17:24:23 UTC
If you assign mountpoints to the other OSes in the partitioning UI, and select that they not be formatted, os-prober should pick these up.

Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2012-08-08 23:30:59 UTC
I don't think assigning mount points to other OSes in the installer is something people are going to instinctively do. I know I wouldn't, necessarily. If we felt it sufficiently important, I'm sure we could make other OS detection work even without the user creating a mount point for the other OS's partitions, though that may make this more of an RFE than a bug? (also, how does newUI affect this?)


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