On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions >> on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk. > > How come that Fedora sticks with GRUB Legacy? One of my reasons for > wanting to try Fedora was to get quicker access to new features, so I'm > really surprised to find that the first thing that I get in contact with > is an outdated GRUB... > Not sure about the exact reasons for this. >>> There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space >>> that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. >>> >> >> In Fedora we use an application called preupgrade for distro upgrades. >> During those upgrades the installer downloads the new kernel images to >> /boot before the upgrade is performed. On previous versions there has >> been problems where the /boot was not large enough and upgrades failed. >> So from F12 the recommended /boot size is 500MB to avoid such issues. > > Ugh. So I have hundreds of free GBs in my LVM VGs, but I won't be able > to install Fedora? Is there no way around this? Well you have two options I think, 1. the obvious first, resize your LVMs to free 500 MB and use it as /boot 2. use an external drive (even small USB drives should work) as your /boot. I haven't done this personally but there are many on this list who do that. You should be able to find some discussions about this in the archives. However there is a more adventurous option, you can use option 2 above to boot the netinstall iso but then actually install Fedora with grub2 from the repos. That way you get a Fedora install which uses grub2. I think there are a few pages on the wiki about this. As far as I recall there are some people on the list who use grub2. So maybe you can search in the fedoraproject wiki and then start a new thread asking how others do it. Hope these help. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
