F12 RC possible bug when windows pre installed???

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sun, 11/8/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: F12 RC possible bug when windows pre installed???
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Gianluca Cecchi" <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 11:27 AM
> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 11:00 -0800,
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> > I know that it is *impossible* to setup a system in
> which all the
> > possibilities are known, but there are some
> machines/many in fact that
> > hace a restore partition and the installation of grub
> maps to it
> > instead of the "normal" windows(C:\) partition. 
> 
> 
> Is this new behaviour in F12 or was it the same in F11? Can
> you _please_
> file a bug, including an fdisk printout of a partition
> layout which
> would trigger the bug? Thanks.
> 
> -- 
I will try to reply to this message several times with the different layouts:  

Emachines Machine 1:

[root at n6355-ET1161-05 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x66f2e07a                     

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1306    10485760   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2            1306       14360   104857868    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3   *       14361       14386      204800   83  Linux    
/dev/sda4           14387       19457    40732807+   5  Extended 
/dev/sda5           14387       19457    40732672   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 35.9 GB, 35852910592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4358 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000                     

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 5855 MB, 5855248384 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 711 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000                     

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root at n6355-ET1161-05 ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf 
# grub.conf generated by anaconda                  
#                                                  
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that                    
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.         
#          root (hd0,2)                                                    
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_n6355et116105-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img                                
#boot=/dev/sda                                                                 
default=0                                                                      
timeout=5                                                                      
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz                                         
hiddenmenu                                                                     
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64)                                        
        root (hd0,2)                                                           
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_n6355et116105-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet                                                                
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img                          
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-117.fc12.x86_64)                                         
        root (hd0,2)                                                            
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-117.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_n6355et116105-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet                                                                
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-117.fc12.x86_64.img                          
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64)                                         
        root (hd0,2)                                                            
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_n6355et116105-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-96.fc12.x86_64)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-96.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_n6355et116105-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.5-96.fc12.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_n6355et116105-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
        initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.x86_64.img
title windows
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1


Thanks,


Antonio