Fedora 14 & 16 switching grub & grub2
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#133 Fedora 14 & 16 switching grub & grub2
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2012-02-26
2012-02-15
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Using clonezilla-live-1.2.12-10-i486.iso on an eMachines e525 I could restore a whole Fedora16 disk. When I tried to restore a whole Fedora14 disk clonezilla tried to replace grub2 with grub but failed with this error message:
The file /tmp/hd_img.hp9UAx/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
Failed to install grub.
Both dumps were made with the same version of clonezilla. I tried restoring Fedora14 twice with the same result. I was able to re-install grub using the rescue disk and run Fedora14.
As a workaround I installed grub2 alongside Fedora14; now I can easily switch between Fedora14 and Fedora16.
I was not using expert mode.
Probaly it's connected with my problem: when restoring Fedora16 image with boot on system partition grub is wrongly recognized due to line 2406 in ocs-functions, whitch is checking for grub2 but is looking only in /boot/grub subdir (but if Fedora grub2 is in /boot/grub2).
The Debian-based Clonezilla does not support grub1 over ext4, which is Fedora 14 using.. Therefore please use Clonezilla live 20120220-oneiric or 20120220-precise.
A warning message will be added in the future release.
Steven.