On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:13:32PM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Sat Jul 06 2002 at 00:54, Tony Nugent wrote: > > > This is a fairly serious problem, the latest -5 kernel cannot be > > used successfully as the default kernel on an updated installation > > disk. (Well, not without being aware of the problem and how to fix > > it manually). > > (By choosing lilo as the bootloader during the install, or by > creating /boot/grub/device.map and running grub-install within a > %post section in a kickstart file, it is possible to kludge around > this problem). > > There is now a new kernel released for rh7.3... 2.4.18-10. Has > anybody used it to see if the grub installer problem has gone away? Actually I think the bug that keeps grub from installing may be related to a package other than the kernel. The kernel update may just be a coincidence. It may have succeeded on subsequent installs with old kernels due to different install options. I made an updated distro with the last kernel. It worked on the first install but grub failed on a more complex install. After rescuing the system with my floppy boot I found some indications in the install logs that looked like the entire postinstall process aborted due to errors in another package. I hope to have some time to dig into the errors over the next couple of weeks and find the broken package. Of course I could be wrong. ;-) Chuck
