Against what do I file this bug?

S.A. Hartsuiker sahartsu at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 15 07:11:50 UTC 2009


On 07/15/2009 01:31 AM, S.A. Hartsuiker wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
  Uhm, no. I am in the ''Fedora Interactive'' bit, the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit at that moment.




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