fc7t4: still eating babies?

Zoltan Boszormenyi zboszor at freemail.hu
Sun Apr 29 13:23:42 UTC 2007


There shouldn't be such confusion, the second installation
always uses labels like /usr1 , /boot1 , etc. if told to use
different partitions.

Peter Robinson írta:
> 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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