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? 

It is eventually the same behavior :(, I have two Emachines ET-1105?  one running rawhide and another one running Fedora 11, and I had to do the same thing.  Will attach fdisk -l from machine tomorrow since I am not at work where the machine is at :(  

> Can
> you _please_
> file a bug, including an fdisk printout of a partition
> layout which
> would trigger the bug? 

If I file a bug, may I ask against which component should I file against?
grub?   

> Thanks.
> 
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This is the first one that I encountered the so called bug: 

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-August/msg00565.html

It had as grub.conf 

[root acer-aspire-1 ~]# 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_aceraspire1-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us rd_plytheme=charge
        initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off
        initrd /initrd-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686.img
title windows xp
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

and I had to change it to 

[root acer-aspire-1 ~]# 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_aceraspire1-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us rd_plytheme=charge
        initrd /initrd-generic-2.6.31-0.162.rc6.git2.fc12.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686)
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_aceraspire1-lv_root acpi=off
        initrd /initrd-2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686.img
title windows xp
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1
title Acer Restore
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

Note the Acer Restore partition was hd0,0 and windows was (hd0,1).  It also happened to me with Fedora 11 install on Emachines 1105 machine :(.  The real "C:\ " Windows partition was not marked bootable so I had to modifiy it with cfdisk to bootable after I had to reinstall windows since I "did not know" that it was there and thought I had lost it because of the message that I got that the system was being reinstalled since I booted the acer rescue partition :(

Will try to follow up tomorrow with this.  

Regards,

Antonio