On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 13:11 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. I had some issues with oopses during shutdown, so after thrashing about for a while I did the following: cd /boot mv grub grub-save yum reinstall grub2 I conjecture that moving the old grub out of the way may affect how grub2 installs itself, but for whatever reason it appears to have worked. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
