On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:07 -0600, Chris Caudle wrote: > The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16 upgrade, so > I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in the correct direction to > recover. > > I had a F15 system which also has a Windows partition. > The disks (actual logical units on a RAID controller) are like this: > first: Windows partition > second: linux partition > third: Windows NTFS data partition > fourth: Linux XFS data partition > > The linux partition has multiple partitions, with a 100MB /boot partition, > a separate /home partition, swap partition, and OS partition. > > On the F15 installation, grub was the default bootloader, and chained to > the Windows bootloader. > > I upgraded from an F16 DVD, and at the end of the upgrade process anaconda > had a message to the effect that the bootloader was not written properly > and the system may not boot. I don't remember if the wording was that the > bootloader was not written properly, was not upgraded properly, or some > slight variant of that. > > I have booted the F16 DVD in rescue mode, and the system disk is mounted > under /mnt/sysimage, everything seems to be OK there, so I think I just > need to get the bootloader set up properly again. > > Would F16 have been trying to install grub2, or would it have left grub > legacy since this was an upgrade and not a fresh install? > > Before I started the upgrade I printed a copy of fstab, so I have the UUID > of the /boot partition. I have the grub manual from gnu.org, should I be > able to just follow the steps in the generic grub documentation to install > grub using grub2-install? > The only tricky part that I'm aware of is getting stage 1 on the Windows > drive, and stage 1.5 and 2 (if they are still called that in grub2) onto > the /boot partition. Will grub2-install take UUID arguments, or will I > have to give it the raw device names (e.g. c0d1p1 for > controller/lun/partition number)? > > I see after looking through the grub2 documentation that the name for the > stages is now boot.img and core.img. The documentation does not seem > clear to me how you get boot.img onto the MBR and core.img onto a > different drive. Maybe the correct command line to specify that to > grub2-install is all that I am missing at this point. > > Anyone that can help? > > thanks, > Chris Caudle > > How big is /boot? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
