Re: Can't install ƒ20

[Liam Proven]

On 5 March 2014 22:02, Frode, maillister <fr-peter at online.no> wrote:

> The new Anaconda will not let you install grub2 on a partition

Aha!

> but you can
> choose to not install a boot manager at all if you don't want the mbr to be
> overwritten.

Yes, I tried that. That's when it collapsed in a pile of Python errors.

> You can manually install grub2 on a partition before you reboot
> the machine, using another virtual terminal.

This had been my fallback plan, but I did not get that far.

>  Fedora and the grub developers
> do not recommend doing this on ext* and zfs file systems, because they don't
> have enough space allocated for that use, though btrfs does.

I have seen errors doing it on ext2/ext3/ext4 but it always seems to
work anyway.

> I have used the procedure outlined in this bugzilla comment, using grub
> legacy as the main boot loader in mbr (f19):
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826#c36
>
> Be careful if you want to try it though...
> The only problem is that e.g. /etc/default/grub is not generated.

Thanks for the info!

> Another alternative would be to install extlinux instead of grub on the
> partition, using the netinstall iso. I haven't tried it, so I couldn't
> comment on how that works.

:¬o

That sounds a little more exciting than I had wanted...!

> You have probably tried gparted or fdisk from your Ubuntu installation?

Oh, the partition is still there. It used to have Elementary OS in it,
but now it is empty.

The Anaconda installer reaches into the other distros it finds,
inspects their /etc/fstab files (I am guessing from the behaviour
here) and shows them:

_Unknown Linux 1_

sda5 /
sda10 /home

_Unknown Linux 2_

sda6 /
sda10 /home

(And if I let it "see" my SSD, then...)

_Unknown Linux 3_

sdb5 /
sda10 /home


... or something like that.

(If it can read /etc/fstab then I don't know why it can't read
/etc/issue and *name* them, but hey.)

But now that sda5 is not associated with any other partitions, it
doesn't appear in the list of installs and I can't choose it.

It is very annoying.

> The designers/developers have apparently decided to prioritize ease of use
> at the expense of some of the "advanced" features, thinking that those who
> do things differently know how to do it.

Yes, I think that you're right. >_<


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