On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:51 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:20 +0000 > Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava <csava@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no > > > > longer be installed to a partition." > > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installing.html > > > > > *anaconda* won't install GRUB2 to a partition. You can still > > > accomplish it with `grub2-install --force`. > > > > > -T.C. > > > > But is there some danger associated with doing this as part of an > > upgrade? If not, why was the option removed from Anaconda? > > Yes, there is a danger. > See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826#c19 > > "The problem is ext4's boot sector is only 512 bytes, which is not > enough space. The use of --force fragments GRUB, and installs the > pieces into free space without informing the file system. At any future > time the file system can step on any one of those block lists and > render the system unbootable." > > kevin Not true if you use something like this (old grub) title Load GRUB2, Fedora 18 root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img boot or grub2 equivalent no --force involved! See my previous post John -- 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
