--- Michal Jaegermann <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:07:55PM -0700, Antonio > Olivares wrote: > > > > I have updated/upgraded the machine that was > freezing all the time > > to Rawhide using Fedora Preview Iso + Updates. > > > > There is only one gotcha. Grub is not working > correctly? > > > > When starting up machine. IT does nothing it stays > at > > > > GRUB > > AFAIK grub-0.97 will not load boot files from a > partition with > inode size bigger that 128. That was not an issue in > the past > but the current mke2fs, when a partition is "big > enough" - I > believe, will use by default 256 bytes inodes. This > should make > possible a future migration to ext4. I wonder if > this is not > the problem you are seeing? > > > I can successfully boot it using livecd's to boot > the partition. > > In that case you can check. Boot that way and run > > tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 | grep 'Inode size' > I tried the command above to see what was output and I got: Inode size: 128 so it appears all is well. I did a # grub-install /dev/sda and grub is working again :) Regards, Antonio > > to see if the above is really the case. This > assumes that > /dev/sda2 is really the partition in question but > "root (hd0,1)" > seems to support that. > > If my guess is correct then you would have to redo a > file system > on /dev/sda2 with an explicit '-I 128' request to > mke2fs before > restoring a content of this partition and > reinstalling grub > once again. Mind you, such action will change UUID > so if that > file system doubles as / then your current grub.conf > and > /etc/fstab will become invalid and will have to be > adjusted. > The later file will likely need changes in any case. > > If you can confirm that this is what really happened > then > there is a really serious "gotcha" in anaconda. > > Michal > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
