FC4T1 GRUB is always installed into MBR

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Hi, all.

/sbin/grub-install in FC4T1 is broken.
When I install, I told that GRUB to be installed into boot partition,
but GRUB is installed into MBR instead.
After installation, I tried to fix by re-installing GRUB with a command below,

/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda2

but GRUB is installed into MBR again. /dev/hda2 is unchanged.

Any infomation?

[Aaron Kurtz]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:36 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
[snip]
> Any infomation?

Not really, beyond the fact that this is a known issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=151204

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Thank you.

I read the /sbin/grub-install script.
I found that new /sbin/grub-install script has a hack for software-RAID1,
and this hack forces installation drives to a MBR.

install_device=`resolve_symlink "$install_device"`
    for install_drive in `find_real_devs $install_device` ; do
        install_drive=`convert $install_drive | sed 's/,[0-9]*)/)/'`
        if [ "x$install_drive" = "x" ]; then
            exit 1
        fi
        install_drives="${install_drives} ${install_drive}"
    done

The sed always bites partition number part of GRUB-style drive name.
This is only a case for /dev/foobar style of install device.
So, specify install device in GRUB style can be a workaround. like this

/sbin/grub-install hd0,1

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:50:51 -0800
Aaron Kurtz  wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:36 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> [snip]
> > Any infomation?
>
> Not really, beyond the fact that this is a known issue.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=151204
>
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[Peter Jones]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:15 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> I read the /sbin/grub-install script.
> I found that new /sbin/grub-install script has a hack for software-RAID1,
> and this hack forces installation drives to a MBR.

Could you try the package in the yum repo at:
http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/

Thanks.

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

Okay but I got "404" with this baseurl.

baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/

Where is correct baseurl?

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:45:28 -0500
Peter Jones  wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:15 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> > Thank you.
> >
> > I read the /sbin/grub-install script.
> > I found that new /sbin/grub-install script has a hack for software-RAID1,
> > and this hack forces installation drives to a MBR.
>
> Could you try the package in the yum repo at:
> http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/

[Peter Jones]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 02:06 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> Okay but I got "404" with this baseurl.
>
> baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/
>
> Where is correct baseurl?

Sorry, should be http://people.redhat.com/pjones/packages/fc4/
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:45:28 -0500
> Peter Jones  wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:15 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > I read the /sbin/grub-install script.
> > > I found that new /sbin/grub-install script has a hack for software-RAID1,
> > > and this hack forces installation drives to a MBR.
> >
> > Could you try the package in the yum repo at:
> > http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/

[Kazutoshi Morioka]

I confirmed that grub-0.95-12's /sbin/grub-install installs GRUB as I expected.
And boot my PC well. Commands I did are:
/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda2
/sbin/grub-install hd0,1
/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda
/sbin/grub-install hd0
I have not tested on RAID1 array yet.

Thanks.

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:15:58 -0500
Peter Jones  wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 02:06 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> > Okay but I got "404" with this baseurl.
> >
> > baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/
> >
> > Where is correct baseurl?
>
> Sorry, should be http://people.redhat.com/pjones/packages/fc4/
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:45:28 -0500
> > Peter Jones  wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:15 +0900, Kazutoshi Morioka wrote:
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > I read the /sbin/grub-install script.
> > > > I found that new /sbin/grub-install script has a hack for software-RAID1,
> > > > and this hack forces installation drives to a MBR.
> > >
> > > Could you try the package in the yum repo at:
> > > http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fc4/