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  1. Bug #47848
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 47848

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Peter Cordes (peter-cordes) wrote :

I just installed i386 Gutsy from the desktop livecd on an old AMD K7 650MHz, 256MB RAM, that I use for messing around.

1 IDE hard drive:
hda1: win98
hda2: failed installed of winxp
hda5: swap
hda6: / (XFS)

Right after partitioning, the installer warns if you /boot will be on XFS. It pops up a dialog that warns you about grub-install not working properly on an XFS /boot, giving you options of [go back] an [continue]. The actions of the buttons are opposite to their text: [go back] continues, and vice versa.

 At the end of the install, a similar (or identical) dialog comes up before running grub-install. This time, the buttons are mapped correctly. I hit continue, and grub-install failed.

 To install grub manually, I made a grub floppy (cat /usr/lib/*-pc/stage[12] > /dev/fd0) This machine is so old that floppy booting works better than USB. :P Then
root (hd0,5)
setup (hd0)
did the trick. I think there's a way to get it to work from the grub shell running under Linux, maybe using install instead of setup.

 Anyway, Gutsy still has the warnings, and still needs them.