On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Mark Haney wrote: >Maurizio Marini wrote: >> I would advice any list member that it is in the wild a issue regarding >> grub and mbr. >> >> I invite who has not yet done it, to save mbr on a secure place before any >> kernel or grub related upgrade, dd is your friend. >> In the meantime fedora experts and developers are at work (hopefully) to >> investigate and solve this issue. >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450143 >> >> man adviced, man half saved >> >> -m > >While I'm certainly an advocate for 'better safe than sorry', I've never >seen a problem with the MBR on a kernel upgrade or install. Ever. And >I've been building kernels since mid '97 or so. I'll agree with Mark here. I rarely run the fedora kernel for much more time than it takes to go get the latest from kernel.org and build/install it & reboot. 2.6.26-rc6 running ATM for about 20 hours now, I was busy and therefore a day + slow. >That said, this subject line is really misleading and should really be >more about grub than kernels, since grub upgrade do affect the mbr and >kernel upgrades (in my experience) don't. I wouldn't call it misleading, this old fart isn't known to be that kind. >I read this subject line and freaked since I had just updated one of my >servers to the latest kernel and was rebooting as I read it. Of course, >it came up fine, so I did some research and wanted to clarify this post >some. Common sense says a kernel upgrade, unless the kernel is horribly broken, cannot possibly effect the mbr. However, I have had, in the past 2 years of trying to use the nvidia binaries, 2 separate instances of having the mbr of the boot drive wiped, so clean the last time that the mbr had only 1 non-zero byte in it, and both occurred as I was experiencing something in the display going bonkers which in turn forced a reset button reboot, it was frozen solid halfway through a screen switch. Switching to an older ATI card about mid-February seems to have stopped that. Make of it what you will, but my suspicions will forever point at nvidia. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
