--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: F12 RC possible bug when windows pre installed??? > To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 11:27 AM > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 11:00 -0800, > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > I know that it is *impossible* to setup a system in > which all the > > possibilities are known, but there are some > machines/many in fact that > > hace a restore partition and the installation of grub > maps to it > > instead of the "normal" windows(C:\) partition. > > > Is this new behaviour in F12 or was it the same in F11? It is eventually the same behavior :(, I have two Emachines ET-1105? one running rawhide and another one running Fedora 11, and I had to do the same thing. Will attach fdisk -l from machine tomorrow since I am not at work where the machine is at :( > Can > you _please_ > file a bug, including an fdisk printout of a partition > layout which > would trigger the bug? If I file a bug, may I ask against which component should I file against? grub? > Thanks. > > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT > org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- This is the first one that I encountered the so called bug: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00565.html It had as grub.conf [root acer-aspire-1 ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us rd_plytheme=charge initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off initrd /initrd-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686.img title windows xp rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 and I had to change it to [root acer-aspire-1 ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us rd_plytheme=charge initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686.img title Fedora (2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off initrd /initrd-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686.img title windows xp rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 title Acer Restore rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Note the Acer Restore partition was hd0,0 and windows was (hd0,1). It also happened to me with Fedora 11 install on Emachines 1105 machine :(. The real "C:\ " Windows partition was not marked bootable so I had to modifiy it with cfdisk to bootable after I had to reinstall windows since I "did not know" that it was there and thought I had lost it because of the message that I got that the system was being reinstalled since I booted the acer rescue partition :( Will try to follow up tomorrow with this. Regards, Antonio -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
