Against what do I file this bug?

[S.A. Hartsuiker]

On 07/15/2009 01:24 AM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> S.A. Hartsuiker wrote:
>> Now for my problem. Although Anaconda installed grub in the bootsector
>> of the fakeraid mirrored device, I never actually get to a grub prompt,
>> it just loads the kernel.
>
> Um... do you mean that grub loads the latest kernel without pausing to
> ask if that's what you want? Because as I understand that is intended
> behavior with F11 (with F10 already, I want to say). Hold some key
> during boot to get the grub menu (ctrl works well, being unused by most
> BIOS's).

Ok, this is a pebkac. Apparently it's just a very short timeout now.
Keeping a key pressed after POST, but before I see any mention of grub
seems to work.

>
>> Presumably due to the possibility that grub can't find the /boot
>> partition.
>
> This makes no sense. If grub was failing to find /boot, you would get a
> grub error, since there would be nothing for it to boot (nor would it
> find grub.conf, I think). IOW, you would get slightly farther than the
> BIOS failing to find a MBR, but certainly no maintenance mode (which
> implies a roughly-functional kernel and initrd).

Yes, see above.

>
>> However during the mounting stage of the boot process the /boot
>> partition can also not be found and I am dropped into maintance mode.
>
> This sounds like an initrd problem to me, but I am no expert.
>