On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> So yes, if it silently rewrote the mbr, it will just as silently rewrite >> the device.map, and this list will, whenever I do manage to get it booted >> again, hear from one very unhappy camper. > >It should not re-write the device map, so I would report this as a >big. The install script needs to check if there is a device map >file, and honor it. > >> So thanks for the warning, I'm off to dd a backup of the mbr and >> /boot/grub to a usb key and to what is now /dev/sdc in hopes I can recover >> from such a boneheaded 'upgrade'. > >This is not going to help, because the old MBR will be pointing to >the wrong location for stage 1.5, so you will get an error on boot. >Remember, the part of GRub that is in the MBR loads from a fixed >disk location. It does not read the file system. So, unless stage >1.5 is in the same place on the disk, (head, cylinder, sector) it is >not going to be able to load it. > >Your best bet is to fix the device map, and run grub-install. > >Mikkel I have Mikkel, twice, and grub-install (or one of its friends) overwrote it both times. Lets just say it was "educational". I now have backups under other names there. --------device.map-------- # this device map was generated by anaconda (hd0) /dev/sdb -------------------------- No mention of any other drives seems to be allowed, and there are 2 others. Also NDI why it says Anaconda, cuz Anaconda hasn't been exec'ed on this box since last February when (I think nvidia blobs had something to do with it) when something, for the 2nd time in 3 months, wiped the mbr from the boot drive. Now I'm on an old ATI card running the radeon driver, and no further problem (knock on wood). Maybe, if and when I get around to building another box, the new mobo's bios won't be so fscking brain dead and I won't have to screw around with this anymore. While we're on the subject of mbr's, how big is it? The first 512 bytes of the one I just saved is virtually empty. So I overwrote it with a 4kb version, b but that is bearing some resemblance to a list of inodes. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hoping when a rock or a club will do." -- McCloctnik the Lucid -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
