Possible a little off topic, but issues effect Fedora 16 sytems and grub2. Haven't been able to find detailed info on exactly what is going on with the grub2. If someone knows the info, or where I could find it. Thanks. Just ran into some strange issues with grub2 and not sure what happened. Did the process on some machines, and it worked fine, and others it did not. Not sure if it was something with the grub2-install process, or using gparted. I have systems that were updated to Fedora 16 as clean install from DVD using a custom setup, since machines already had XP and Fedora 14, but had it wipe the old system. It had the grub2 boot system setup, but had the first partition for the XP starting at sector 63, but all seemed fine. Later I did the grub2-install --recheck and it gave a message about the area being to small. On a test system, I booted with a parted magic cd, and reduced the size of the boot partition from 1024M to 1023M (sda2) and moved it to the right. Rebooted and everything was ok. Rebooted from the parted magic cd, and moved the XP partition (sda1) over to the right. Rebooted. No problem. Then ran the grub2-install --recheck and it went thru with no problem. So, ran it again without the recheck process, and everything seemed to work fine. So I wanted to do the same with the other systems. The Fedora 16 has the same version of gparted, so I did the resizing, and moving within Fedora 16. No error messages, but the grub not boot. Would come up with the first little grub message, but then restart. Did know how much of the disk, the grub2 was using so copied the 2048 sectors from the working system, and restored it. That got the grub2 working, but then the windows XP wasn't. Had to reformat the partition, and then restore the ntfsclone image of it and now things seem to be ok. But would like to know what sectors grub2 is actually using on the system. In the past, copying the first track would be enough, but on a clean install system the starting of the first partition is 2048? Is it using all that. Even thou the partitions were not mounted in Fedora 16 when using gparted, perhaps the Fedora 16 didn't not the changes during the shutdown process and could have been using the data at boot? The XP could have been doing the same thing of writing something outside the actual partitions. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 11898901.476152 | EINSTEIN 7448540.769852 ROSETTA 4291062.427399 | ABC 11535206.710973 -- 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
