Re: F8 install failure at xinit

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On Saturday 15 December 2007, Craig White wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 14 December 2007, Craig White wrote:
>> >On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Greetings all;
>> >>
>> >> I just tried to install F8 on a fresh 400GB sata disk, on an offboard
>> >> controller.  I configured it so as not to touch the existing drives
>> >> with FC6 installed on them so that I had some continuity and could back
>> >> up to Fc6 as I am now.
>> >>
>> >> Everything was marching along at a good rate, with basically an
>> >> everything install, 1266 packages IIRC.
>> >>
>> >> At the 805th package it bailed out.  The package was:
>> >>
>> >> xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-2.fc8.i386.rpm
>> >>
>> >> It either could not be opened or was missing.  The media did pass
>> >> checksum, and the network was alive & well, the install getting much of
>> >> its info from there according to the traffic on my router.
>> >>
>> >> Next?
>> >
>> >----
>> >Personally, I'd start over.
>> >
>> >you probably could do a reboot with all the same install parameters and
>> >it would probably continue on from where it left off, you could probably
>> >do a linux rescue boot, chroot, manually finish (at least 'yum
>> >groupupdate Base') and run grub-install but I would want a new/clean
>> >install to start with disrepair.
>> >
>> >Craig
>>
>> I just found a newer bios for my now elderly Biostar M7NCD Pro mobo, and
>> will put that in first & then try it tomorrow when the old fart is a
>> little fresher.  Hopefully that will make an offboard /boot partition
>> possible.
>
>----
>where the /boot partition is located should be of little consequence
>because the bootloader code needs to be on the first drive's mbr and
>grub can locate a /boot partition in any drive at that point.
>
>Craig

Even if its sata on an accessory card the bios can't see?  The F8 installer 
did call it sda though.   Call me puzzled for the time being, with a error 
of -ENOTENOUGHCOFFEE, I was 5:30 am getting the FC6 back to bootable due to 
the 400mhz FSB default of the newer bios.  Trashed everything.

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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