RAID-1 boot partition and FC2->FC4 upgrade

[Paul Howarth]

Jack Howarth wrote:
> Paul,
>     Thanks for the reply. I guess I'll give the upgrade a try
> with the "Skip boot loader updating" and see if that works.
> I suppose the worse case situation would be that I need to
> resort to the linux rescue cd mode and manually install the
> boot loader myself. I am very surprised that no one has seems
> to have run into this before. Surely I'm not alone in using
> a RAID-1 boot partition. So far I can't find any messages
> about this exact issue in the mailing list.

You're not along in using a RAID-1 boot partition. I do, but I didn't 
see the same problem you did, for reasons currently unknown.

> ps I wonder what "Create a new boot loader" would do.

I suspect it's there for people that want to switch to grub from some 
other bootloader. It might not do anything different to the grub version 
of "update bootloader". But that's guessing, I don't know for sure.

 > I considered
> trying that but if anaconda is too stupid not to find the boot loader
> to upgrade I have serious doubts that it is smart enough to find
> where to properly install it when /boot is RAID-1. Also there 
> is no documentation in the Installation guide on how the "Create
> a new boot loader" picks a location. That is does it ask for a
> location or blindly installed the boot loader on what it considers
> to be the boot disk.

Don't know.

 > Also might screw up any of the md partitions?

Unlikely, but you do have backups, don't you... ?

Paul.