Gilboa Davara wrote: >>> I think I know what happened. >>> Are you sharing boot between F16 and F17 by any chance [1]? >> >> I am. >> I chose custom layout, and gave /dev/sda2 as /boot, >> without formatting it. >> >> Basically, I hoped that this would allow me to run Fedora-16 >> (which I kept on a different partition) >> as an alternative to Fedora-17. >> >> In fact, when I installed Fedora-17 with netinstall >> everything worked fine, and I can boot into F-16 or F-17 or Windows, >> as hoped. >> >> What exactly was my error with the USB stick method? >> As I mentioned I had the same problem with the DVD iso >> and with the KDE Live CD (both transferred to the USB stick). > > F17's anaconda installer (or actually, the grub configuration > builders) barfs on having the same kernel version on both F16 and F17, > causing it to select the wrong kernel for F17 (3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64). > This in-order causes Fedora to oops during either startup or shutdown. > In my cases, I encountered this bug on 10/11 machines I installed > Fedora on (either new install w/ shared boot or [pre-]upgrade). > I solved this problem by forcing grub to load the correct kernel > during first-boot [1]. Once up, I rebuilt the grub configuration [2]. Thanks again. That certainly sounds like what happened to me, as grub seemed seriously confused between F16 and F17. I still find grub2 difficult to configure, and haven't found an entirely satisfactory HOWTO or similar document. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
