On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:59 PM, David Lehman dlehman@redhat.com wrote:
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:56 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Between TC1 and release of F16 Alpha, something must have changed to the worse with regard to installing GRUB to a partition's primary sector. Partitioning hasn't changed. TC1 managed to install GRUB to /dev/sda3. Anaconda now reports failure to install, and I've found this on virtual console:
/usr/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partitionj. This is a BAD idea..
/usr/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
/usr/sbin/grub2-setup: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
Bug or feature?
I did Fedora 16 Respin iso install with all latest packages, including latest Anaconda package, and still had this issue.
There were two ntfs partitions (Windows 7 + data partition) and 30 GB of free space.
From 30GB free space I created
/root # 200 MB, ext4 /swap # 2.5 GB, swap / # 8.0 GB, ext4 /home # 19 GB, btrfs
grub2 install fails miserably :(
Are there any updates regarding this bug?