Prevent F18 anaconda from overwriting bootloader
David Lehman
dlehman at redhat.com
Fri Dec 7 21:57:09 UTC 2012
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:38 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> As of "smoke 4" it looks like I am finally able to install Fedora 18
> onto a new LV within an existing VG (a VG built from 2 separate software
> RAID devices no less)!
>
> I did this in a test VM, and I'm darn glad that I did, because it looks
> like it would have trashed the existing (grub "legacy") bootloader
> setup on my system. Indeed, the CentOS installation that I "pre-staged"
> into the test VM is nowhere to be found in the new Grub menu.
>
> I just ran through the installation workflow again, and I am never asked
> where I want the bootloader installed (or if I want it installed at
> all).
>
> How can I prevent anaconda from overwriting my existing bootloader?
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885240
I am in the process of testing a fix right now.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Ian Pilcher arequipeno at gmail.com
> Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying.
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