[major SNIP] Speaking of yum and bootloaders, I noticed today that yum (more specifically, the heisted checkbootloader.py :) relies on the presence of a comment line in /boot/grub/grub.conf to determine on which disk/partition grub may be installed. When this comment-directive is incorrect, yum bails. For example, I have a couple of systems whose root filesystems have been transitioned from an IDE drive to a SCSI drive on a scsi controller card. I think this changed happened pre-grub. Anyway, the comment-directive in grub.conf was never changed (who bothers changing comments?) and remained: #boot=/dev/hda checkbootloader.py uses this line to see if grub is really installed. These systems, though, have no hda anymore, and when it tries to read the boot block on hda, yum bails. Isn't there a Better Way? Wouldn't (hd0), xref'd with /boot/grub/device.map be a better candidate to see if grub is actually installed? Michael -- Michael A. Peterson, PhD. Systems Programmer Department of Chemistry Duke University 919-660-1557 "PC" != "Windows"
