[Discuss] Upgraded fedora 15 to 16 unable to boot

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 01/01/2012 12:26 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 12/31/2011 6:05 PM, Jerry Natowitz wrote:
>> I have run into some very strange problems with BIOS disk enumeration.
>> Is it possible that the USB drive is being enumerated before the disk
>> drive?
>
> No, the fedora installer really doesn't like /boot on RAID.  Must be a 
> wicked problem, because people have complained loudly for a while now 
> about this bug.
>
> The nice thing about software RAID1 is that you can let grub read 
> /dev/sda1 as if it were a normal partition (instead of a member of the 
> raid group), since all the raid metadata is at the end of the device. 
> Then once you boot, you can re-sync (if needed).
>
Now since I am back about 98%.
The fist upgrade I think I inadvertently selected /dev/sda. In any case 
in then next few cases the installer failed (both on upgrade and fresh 
install) with a message that the system may not boot.
The solution is as you mention. I unraided the /boot partition. Now 
everything works ok. What I might possibly do is to place a duplicate 
/boot on /dev/sdb, but that is a low priority.

Once I was able to boot, then I was not able to log in on Gnome3, but 
that was probably the customizations I added,

My backup procedure completely backs up /etc, home, and /usr/local.

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