On Fri, November 7, 2008 1:21 pm, Will Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:40 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote: >> A quick update on this. I successfully upgraded one machine about a >> week ago, so I tried another machine today and it had a problem >> booting during the install. >> ... > ... > As far as we've been able to trace it, *something* causes GRUB stage2 > (or stage 1.5) to move its physical on-disk location. But we don't know > what. Nothing that we're doing to GRUB *should* cause that. But > something does, and then stage1 can't find the rest of GRUB, and we get > stuck with "GRUB" on-screen and an unbootable system. > > Anyway. I've spent *weeks* trying to track that one down, bugging pjones > (our GRUB maintainer) and esandeen (our mad ext3/ext4 hacker) endlessly, > and never made any real progress. Reinstalling GRUB, as you did, is the > proper fix when this happens. But we still don't know what causes it, > and therefore how to keep it from happening in the first place. Can preupgrade just re-install grub itself at some suitable point. It seems that'd work around the issue... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
