Detecting systems booting with GRUB2 in anaconda
Hi,
I was asked about problem with installing Fedora 13 on a machine
that is dual booting Windows 7 and another distro using GRUB2.
There is nothing about GRUB2 in Installation Guide
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-...
"To add, remove, or change the detected operating system settings, use the options
provided."
It is not clear is anaconda capable to detect properly such distro
that uses GRUB2 and add it as additional system to Fedora GRUB menu list?
Here is e-mail that I received about this problem:
And Fedora has made my ubuntu installation unreachable (remember
I'm a
novice). I expected GRUB2 like behavior - list the available OSes.
Instead I have Fedora and Other, with other pointing to Windows 7.
> You can try to add Ubuntu to this grub.conf
Unfortunately, it looks like I was nailed pretty good on this one.
Though a novice, I know that fdisk -l and blockid give me a lot of
info. So I know the Ubuntu device (/dev/sda5), but Fedora complains
when trying to mount it ("Error mounting: wrong fs type, bad option,
bad superblock on /dev/sda5"). Booting from a Ubuntu LiveCD is the
same.
fschk -f /dev/sda5 - no joy. And trying to repair the superblock by
hand with e2fsck, dumpe2fs and friends has not helped. I think I'm too
ignorant of the file system to correct the problems that the installer
created.
Perhaps you could ask the Fedora team to add a test case: Install
Fedora on a machine that is dual booting Windows 7 and <another
distro> using GRUB2. The results might be alarming considering I did
not receive one warning for the operation.
Alexey Kurov <nucleo(a)fedoraproject.org>