Is this a flaw or not?

fedora fedora at ayni.com
Sun Oct 18 18:37:46 UTC 2015


Hi listers

I have a workstation with two disks:

[root at casablanca ~]# parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD20EFRX-68E (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                 Flags
  1      20.5kB  262MB   262MB                BIOS boot partition  bios_grub
  2      262MB   21.7GB  21.5GB  ext4         Linux filesystem
  3      21.7GB  32.5GB  10.7GB  swsusp       Linux swap
  4      32.5GB  870GB   838GB   ext4         Linux filesystem
  5      870GB   900GB   30.0GB  ext4         Linux filesystem
  6      900GB   2000GB  1100GB  btrfs


Model: ATA WDC WD10EADS-00L (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
  1      1049kB  52.4GB  52.4GB  primary  xfs             boot
  2      52.4GB  61.1GB  8703MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)
  3      61.1GB  1000GB  939GB   primary  xfs


[root at casablanca ~]#

NOTE: the first disk has got a gpt partition table and a BIOS boot 
partition, the second has got an msdos partition table.
Both disks have got fedora 22 installed. They can run independently from 
one another.
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Just now, I did an update

dnf update
...
...
...

on both disks. I rebooted both disks.

The result on the first disk (with gpt partition table) is this:
[root at thunder ~]# uname -r
4.2.3-200.fc22.x86_64
[root at thunder ~]#

[root at thunder ~]# dnf list installed |grep kernel |sort
abrt-addon-kerneloops.x86_64            2.6.1-2.fc22  @System
kernel-core.x86_64                      4.1.6-200.fc22  @System
kernel-core.x86_64                      4.1.6-201.fc22  @System
kernel-core.x86_64                      4.1.8-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-core.x86_64                4.1.4-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-core.x86_64                4.1.6-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-core.x86_64                4.1.6-201.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64       4.1.4-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64       4.1.6-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64       4.1.6-201.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64             4.1.4-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64             4.1.6-200.fc22  @System
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64             4.1.6-201.fc22  @System
kernel-devel.x86_64                     4.1.8-200.fc22  @System
kernel-headers.x86_64                   4.1.8-200.fc22  @System
kernel-modules-extra.x86_64             4.1.8-200.fc22  @System
kernel-modules.x86_64                   4.1.6-200.fc22  @System
kernel-modules.x86_64                   4.1.6-201.fc22  @System
kernel-modules.x86_64                   4.1.8-200.fc22  @System
kernel.x86_64                           4.1.6-200.fc22  @System
kernel.x86_64                           4.1.6-201.fc22  @System
kernel.x86_64                           4.1.8-200.fc22  @System
libreport-plugin-kerneloops.x86_64      2.6.2-1.fc22  @System
[root at thunder ~]#


Apparently, the kernel 4.2.3-200.fc22.x86_64 is not installed, but the 
machine according to uname -r
booted from it?????

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The result on the second disk (with msdos partition table) is this:

[root at casablanca ~]# uname -r
4.2.3-200.fc22.x86_64
[root at casablanca ~]#

[root at casablanca ~]# dnf list installed |grep kernel |sort
abrt-addon-kerneloops.x86_64            2.6.1-5.fc22 @updates
kernel-core.x86_64                      4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-core.x86_64                      4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-core.x86_64                                        @updates
kernel-debug-core.x86_64                4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-core.x86_64                4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-core.x86_64                4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64       4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64       4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64       4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64             4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64             4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64             4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64                     4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64                     4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64                     4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-headers.x86_64                   4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64                   4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64                   4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64                   4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
kernel.x86_64                           4.1.7-200.fc22 @updates
kernel.x86_64                           4.1.8-200.fc22 @updates
kernel.x86_64                           4.2.3-200.fc22 @updates
libreport-plugin-kerneloops.x86_64      2.6.2-4.fc22 @updates
[root at casablanca ~]#

Here, the kernel 4.2.3-200.fc22 is installed and the machine according 
to uname -r booted from it.

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Does the BIOS boot partition  make the difference? Can anybody explain 
this strange behaviour?

Thanks for your attention.

suomi

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