fc7t4: still eating babies?

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Sun Apr 29 12:39:57 UTC 2007


At a guess the cause of the confusion between the 2 installs is a
duplication of disk labels between the 2 installs on the 2 disks.

Pete

On 4/29/07, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat.com> wrote:
> However, I found some bugs. In particular:
>
> 1) two drives in systems, installing onto one, not doing anything to
> the second, but try to mount the second on say
> /mnt/drive/montsouris so that one can read files from it. Kills anaconda
> dead.
>
> 2) same as one, but without the mount. Reboot: it looks like grub
> written to the wrong drive (ie, installing on to drive one, grub info
> written to drive two). UGH!!!!
>
> Minor panic as I contemplate a day of moaning and non-paris rando velo
> riding, but then I reboot into the fc7t4 disk and mount drive two
> manuall: data still intact, apparently boot info fried. Ie, there is a
> directory "/boot" but nothing is in it.
>
> Any pointers on how to get drive two bootable again? Drive two is an
> up-to-date FC6 install, or used to be.
>
> Thanks,
> benjamin
>
> ps. Usually I physically unplug the second drive to avoid this kind of
> thing. Ever the optimist....
>
> pps. please cc my gmail account on replies as my mail is now screwed.
>
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