Bug 8218

Summary:	Latest update of GRUB makes itself default bootloader
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	arnaud.patard, mageia, pterjan
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8223
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	grub	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Doug Laidlaw 2012-11-27 06:50:24 CET

Description of problem:Just installed updated Grub to Cauldron.  I have Mga2 as my main distro, and 2's GRUB as bootloader.  After the upgrade, when I rebooted, I got repeated messages that Stage 1.5 could not be found.  Reinstalling GRUB from Mga 2 solved the problem.  It seems that the Cauldron Grub was made default, but its config was wrong, and the config routine had been skipped.


(Separate issue (or is it?): When I boot from Mga2 Rescue, it always finds Cauldron's Grub.  I believe that the Mga2 rescue should find Mga2's bootloader.  On this occasion, I resorted to using the Grub 1 Emergency CD from SourceForge.)

Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-27 19:38:43 CET

CC: (none) => arnaud.patard, mageia, pterjan
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8223
Source RPM: GRUB => grub

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-11-28 10:23:59 CET

could be a consequence of bug 8223, rtp, pterjan, blino, I'm right ?

Comment 2 Doug Laidlaw 2012-11-28 10:30:26 CET

It could very well be; I am not qualified to say.

Comment 3 Doug Laidlaw 2012-11-28 10:32:04 CET

BTW, I am running Alpha 2.  I haven't finished downloading Alpha 3 yet.

Comment 4 Pascal Terjan 2012-11-28 12:24:12 CET

I don't think it is directly related, but probably triggered by the update.

Grub updates itself when the package is updated, but it should only happen where it was installed already.

Comment 5 Doug Laidlaw 2012-11-29 08:31:44 CET

Today's update seems to have cured the problem.  My Cauldron bootloader was installed, but that would have happened anyway, if I had run an upgrade-type installation.  More importantly, it gave me a proper Grub menu, and I was able to reboot into Mga 2 without any problem.  Thanks guys!

Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-23 17:50:12 CET

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED