The changing Fedora

[John Austin]

On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 09:51 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:35:20 +0000
> Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 04:28 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: 
> > > On 1/22/13, Cristian Sava <csava at central.ucv.ro> wrote:
> > > > and grub2 for dual boot ... "Beginning in Fedora 18, GRUB2 can no
> > > > longer be installed to a partition."
> > > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-grub-installing.html
> > 
> > > *anaconda* won't install GRUB2 to a partition.  You can still
> > > accomplish it with `grub2-install --force`.
> > 
> > > -T.C.
> > 
> > But is there some danger associated with doing this as part of an
> > upgrade?  If not, why was the option removed from Anaconda?
> 
> Yes, there is a danger. 
> See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826#c19
> 
> "The problem is ext4's boot sector is only 512 bytes, which is not
> enough space. The use of --force fragments GRUB, and installs the
> pieces into free space without informing the file system. At any future
> time the file system can step on any one of those block lists and
> render the system unbootable."
> 
> kevin

Not true if you use something like this (old grub)

title   Load GRUB2, Fedora 18
root    (hd0,3)
kernel  /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img
boot


or grub2 equivalent


no --force involved!

See my previous post

John