grub problem in F14

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Mon Aug 9 09:15:27 UTC 2010


I made a typo:

On 08/09/10 10:35, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 3 SATA disks on my box with 3 installed systems:
> 
> /dev/sda with windows7 on /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb for data and /dev/sdc for
> 2 Fedora systems: /dev/sdb5 with F13 and /dev/sdb7 with a fresh

/dev/sdb5 should be /dev/sdc5 and /dev/sdb7 should be /dev/sdc7

> installed F14/Rc1.
> 
> My F14 runs properly. Now I wanted to install under F14 grub again on
> the boot disk /dev/sda (grub-install /dev/sda), and it seemed to be OK.
> But if trying to boot, Win7 no more could be booted (no boot record found).
> 
> Booting back to F13 and reinstalling grub with the identical
> grub-install command and booting again: Win7 could be booted.
> 
> /boot/grub/grub.conf are identical in F13 and F14.
> 
> Now I found out, that the usage of *--force-lba* in grub-install
> produced a clean bootloader on /dev/sda, so I could boot Win7 with a
> boot loader generated in F14.
> 
> What I not understand is the fact, that under F13 --force-lba is *not
> needed*, but seems to be needed on F14.
> 
> My board: ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI/H
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
> 
> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
> 
> 


-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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