Alan Cox writes:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 23:02:14 -0400 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If your partition table starts at sector 63, you're most likely boned, > because grub2 too fat, with RAID-1 loaded. Thats complete crap. The Fedora installer is utterly broken here. Grub2 is just fine. If you do the install by hand it all works fine.
That may very well be. I haven't looked into what it takes to install grub2 by myself. But even if I were to uninstall Fedora's grub rpms, and install grub myself, I'm sure that the next release to try to cram its grub back onto the system.
Manually installing grub is not a workable solution.I'm not really bothered by the 63-sector fiasco. I think that stuff like this, and like /boot's demands becoming larger, are par for the course, in the context of Fedora and what it's all about.
Basically the Fedora installer is a mess. It's been going downhill for years and it just gets worse each release. Unfortunately with FC17 you can't really avoid using it due to the giant re-arrangement of /bin and /usr/bin. It doesn't help that the standard procedure for handling Fedora installer bugs is close them wontfix.
Well, at least that's better than leaving the bugs open in the "NEW" state, for three-plus years, and simply ignoring them. I'd rather have no doubts if I'm told to screw off; that's still better than just left wondering about it.
Can't wait to see how F17's update codepath chews on my machines.
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