On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:21:44 -0400, Will Woods wrote: > > First, Anaconda gave a traceback > > upon being told to use a GRUB device other than MBR. > > Hm. What's your disk layout like? What device were you telling it to > use? /dev/sda8 = the root partition for F9-Beta/Rawhide Nothing special. Has worked before many times, also with F9-Alpha. > > Then, during the next attempt, I installed GRUB into MBR. But after > > restoring F8's GRUB, I found out that it cannot access F9-Beta's root > > partition. > > Did you encrypt F9b's disk? No. > It'd be kind of tricky for GRUB to read > that, obviously. > > How did you restore F8's GRUB? grub> root (hd0,0) grub> configfile /grub/grub.conf grub> boot to boot into F8, then: # grub-install /dev/sda to overwrite the MBR. Not much magic here. All that matters is that F9 GRUB in MBR fails to find files in F9 root, e.g. grub> root (hd0,7) root (hd0,7) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf errors out and grub> find /boot/grub/grub.conf does not find /boot/grub/grub.conf on /dev/sda8, but all other grub.conf from other installations. Just nothing on (hd0,7). > > That would have been my way to boot into it from the > > command-line. But it fails to find /boot/grub/grub.conf on it and > > errors out (2: Bad file or directory type) even if I specify it > > myself. > > > It seems to be incompatible with F9. > > That seems unlikely; more likely is that there was some mixed-up > configuration generated by anaconda at some point. Highly doubtful. F9 GRUB (which I installed into /dev/sda8 now from within a chroot) has no trouble finding grub.conf files everywhere: grub> find /boot/grub/grub.conf find /boot/grub/grub.conf (hd0,7) (hd0,9) (hd1,6) (hd1,8) F8 GRUB, however, does not find files on (hd0,7). > If you can give us some details of how your partitions etc. are set up, > I can try to reproduce your problem so we can fix it. Enter Fedora 8 GRUB command-line, then tell me whether you can find files on the Fedora 9 root partition. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
