On Fri Aug 02 2002 at 12:58, Buran Gabor wrote: > Dear all, > > I replaced the kernel, after this during the install I got an > `Error 2: Bad file or directory type' message from grub. I > figured out that this micro-patch [below] solves the problem. I assume that this patch needs to be made to the anaconda rpm that is put into i386/RedHat/RPMS/ (which is used to build the runtime installer). > May be it fixes the similar problems which were on the list a > short time ago. Can anyone confirm that it does fix the grub problem with the recent 2.4.18-5 kernel? (I'll make mention of this in my howto...) > Gábor Thanks for this. > --- bootloader.py.orig Wed Apr 10 23:30:28 2002 > +++ bootloader.py Thu Aug 1 17:25:40 2002 > @@ -592,6 +592,8 @@ > stdout = "/dev/tty5", stderr = "/dev/tty5", > root = instRoot) > > + # sync once again (after grub-install) > + isys.sync() > > # really install the bootloader > p = os.pipe() Cheers Tony