Do i need to install the final fedora 17 release?

[jonathonp]

Do i need to reinstall with the final version of fedora 17 or will the beta install end up being the same thing?

[bigflopper2]

no need to do so,

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...53&postcount=9

further infos
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...7&postcount=13

[jonathonp]

Ok thanks..)

[AdamW]

well, a small caveat; we did change a few things since the Beta which won't show up with yum update. the most notable is that in Beta, firewalld was installed and enabled by default; in Final, it isn't. yum update won't disable it, though. If you want to switch back to the old firewalling setup, like we did in Final, you can do 'systemctl disable firewalld.service', 'systemctl enable iptables.service', and reboot. That should more or less do it.

[sonoran]

Originally Posted by AdamW

well, a small caveat; we did change a few things since the Beta which won't show up with yum update. the most notable is that in Beta, firewalld was installed and enabled by default; in Final, it isn't. yum update won't disable it, though. If you want to switch back to the old firewalling setup, like we did in Final, you can do 'systemctl disable firewalld.service', 'systemctl enable iptables.service', and reboot. That should more or less do it.

What about the grub2 theme issue? I installed the Alpha, am still seeing "unable to find file" and "press any key to continue..." messages during boot. I've been waiting for an update to fix that but - is it time to roll up my sleeves?

[bigflopper2]

Originally Posted by AdamW

well, a small caveat; we did change a few things since the Beta which won't show up with yum update. the most notable is that in Beta, firewalld was installed and enabled by default; in Final, it isn't. yum update won't disable it, though. If you want to switch back to the old firewalling setup, like we did in Final, you can do 'systemctl disable firewalld.service', 'systemctl enable iptables.service', and reboot. That should more or less do it.

thanks for the info Adam, I did that and it's working...configuring with system-config-firewall works fluently

[DBelton]

Originally Posted by sonoran

What about the grub2 theme issue? I installed the Alpha, am still seeing "unable to find file" and "press any key to continue..." messages during boot. I've been waiting for an update to fix that but - is it time to roll up my sleeves?

Have you gotten any grub2 updates since the aplha?

By default, a grub2 update with yum won't replace the bootloader.

Try running grub2-install /dev/sdX and then running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and see if your error is resolved then. I believe I am still getting it here as well, though.

[sonoran]

There is a bug report about this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810348

And since I have grub2 on a partition I had to use

# grub2-install --force /dev/sda6

which produced this:

/usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
/usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
Installation finished. No error reported.

But according to this bug resolution: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730915 that warning can be disregarded.

So, at least for now, the error messages and the delay are gone and my 3 penguins are happy again. Thanks for the suggestion DBelton.

(BTW, it wasn't necessary to run grub2-mkconfig, the reinstall was enough)

[jonathonp]

Hi, for the firewall in the fedora 17 beta i did this:

yum remove firewalld

yum install system-config-firewall

i had to use the --force option too for the grub2 installation on the root partition.

grub2-install --force /dev/sda6

[AdamW]

sonoran: the --force option you passed tells grub to go ahead and do the install with the 'unreliable and discouraged' blocklists. If you didn't pass --force, it wouldn't do the install.