On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 20:12 -0700, John Reiser wrote: >> >> EFI booting that DVD to update an existing Fedora 17 Beta x86_64 with >> EFI boot, and requesting "Do not change bootloader config", has left >> my system unbootable. > > That option is somewhat poorly named. What it really means is 'Don't let > anaconda change the bootloader config'. It doesn't prevent the kernel > post script from changing it, when the kernel package is updated; it'd > be very difficult to prevent that. So it's not actually particularly > unusual for the grub config file to be changed after such an upgrade. We > probably should rename the option somehow... > >> First, it did change /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf, even though I asked >> for no change. Second, the update left only one stanza in grub.conf, >> completely erasing what was there before. This was an Update, so the >> old stanzas should have remained present. > > That certainly sounds wrong. > >> Third, the bootloader was >> changed to one that cannot find anything, and always drops to >> "grub rescue >". Fourth, there is no "help" command in grub rescue. > > Also wrong, but you're not providing much useful data. What exactly is > the grub config changed to? What shows in the anaconda logs from the > upgrade, particularly program.log Since there's a "grub rescue" prompt, has grub2 replaced grub-efi (which, IIUC, is an EFI version of grub1)? -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
