RAID-1 boot partition and FC2->FC4 upgrade

Justin Zygmont jzygmont at solarflow.net
Fri Jul 15 06:39:12 UTC 2005


On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Justin,
>    I assume you upgraded a system to FC4 with a RAID-1 boot
> partition, right? I am still unclear on is what to do in
> the step where anaconda wants to upgrade the boot loader...
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ch04s02.html
>
> On my FC2 box, the FC4 installer claims that no suitable boot loader
> could be found to be upgraded so that the "Update boot loader configuration"
> item is dimmed. I can only "Skip boot loader updating" or
> "Create a new boot loader configuration". Skipping seems unreasonable
> since I won't be able to boot into FC4. That leaves creating a new
> boot loader configuration. I didn't try that yet but I would hope
> I could select the /dev/md0 partition which has the boot loader
> currently on it. Even if I can select the /dev/md0 partition to
> install a new boot loader on it, it still is unclear if the contents
> of /boot will be erased or if the boot loader files will just be
> installed over the current ones (leaving the old kernel files behind).
> I am worried about trying this without some more information since
> it is unclear if I can abort out to the process once I click Next
> after I select the Create new boot loader configuration.

I see, I haven't had a chance to use raid 1 with core 4 yet, I didn;t see 
why there should be a difference, maybe you have come across a bug?  I 
would do a fresh install if it was me.

Hope it works for you..




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