F12 RC possible bug when windows pre installed???

Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 18:00:58 UTC 2009


Hello,
just downloaded boot.iso (170Mb) from

http://ftp.tudelft.nl/download.fedora.redhat.com/linux/development/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
with timestamp 07-Nov-2009 14:13 171M

My test system has a partition layout that comprehends

sda1 ntfs with windows XP and set as bootable by windows xp itself
inside the winxp fs  I also have the copy of the first 512 bytes of sda4, to
boot my F11 partition (with grub installed previously in root partition)
from boot.ini of windows.

Now I have also sda2 that is scratchable.
I run the cd where I burnt the boot.iso and select sda2 as target partition
and to install grub on root partition (so sda2)
This grub setup phase completes, but then I get an error about repositories
not aligned with my install treee and I can only retry (with same failure)
or reboot.
I reboot and I'm not able to start win xp anymore.

I start the same f12 cd in rescue and notice with fdisk that now  my sda has
this

sda1 no bootable flag
sda2 bootable flag

so that I remove bootbale flag from sda2 and set bootable flag for sda1 and
my windows XP starts again and also is able again to start my F11 from sda4

Is this a bug or does it depends on installation not finished?
Anyway I think we have to consider a possible error and the bootable flasg
should not be removed from sda1.....

I copied these files and they are available to check

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 57822 2009-11-07 18:32 anaconda.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20840 2009-11-07 18:32 program.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 39602 2009-11-07 18:32 storage.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 32733 2009-11-07 18:32 X.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1541 2009-11-07 18:32 yum.log

yum.log contains:

[2009-11-07 18:29:11,198] INFO_2  : Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,205] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora - Rawhide -
Developmental packages for the next Fedora release for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,206] WARNING : Repo Fedora - Rawhide - Debug contains
-source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,207] WARNING : Repo Fedora - Rawhide - Source contains
-source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,209] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora rawhide -
x86_64 - Test Updates for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,210] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Test
Updates Debug contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,210] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - Test Updates
Source contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,213] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora rawhide -
x86_64 - Updates for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,214] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Updates -
Debug contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,214] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - Updates Source
contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,217] WARNING : Excluding devel repo Fedora rawhide -
x86_64 for non-devel anaconda
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,218] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - x86_64 - Debug
contains -source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,218] WARNING : Repo Fedora rawhide - Source contains
-source or -debuginfo, excluding
[2009-11-07 18:29:11,219] DEBUG   : Config time: 0.404

Possible that it excludes all repositories?

Any hint, also for install?

Gianluca
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