--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
From: Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: F12 RC possible bug when windows pre installed???
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com>
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.
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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