RE: Fedora 9 install troubles - big

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I finally cracked the case and it gave me a "goddamn how could I have missed
this" feeling.

What happened: I booted from the DVD, checked device.map and grub.conf which
were 100% correct. So I went into the grub command prompt and issued "root"
which responded that root was set to fd0... Yet my first boot device is
/dev/sda (hd0) and I clearly said to the installer to put it on /dev/sda. So
I set root to hd0 and did "grub-install /dev/sda" and lo and behold, grub
now said loading stage 1.5. Hurray!

I cheered too early though cause then the dreaded Error 17 came up. So grub
couldn't find /dev/sdb1 where my /boot is. This started ringing a bell. Why
is grub looking on other partitions than /dev/sdb1?

So I dove into my bios to double check the boot sequence and uttered a very
loud "d'oh"!

Boot priority was set to:

/sda
/sdc
/sdb

So grub was looking for /boot on my Vista disk as it sees the 3rd hard disk
as hd1 instead of hd2. Changed the boot order and everything works fine now.

Can't believe I spent over a week to figure that out.

Many thanks to all the people who helped me get this sorted!

Regards,

Wim

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Vikram Goyal
Sent: zondag 18 mei 2008 8:11
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fedora 9 install troubles - big

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:34:17PM +0200, Fluffy The Vampire wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I decided to install Fedora 9 (64-bit) on my system. It wasn't a
good 
> experience as it refused to work... Here's my story:
>
> 1) downloaded the 64bit ISO and burnt it to a dvd
<snip>

This seems that grub is not able to find the root directory, which is
/boot to load from as the drives order may be changing from the time
grub was installed during install.

Try booting from the DVD. Is it able to mount the Fedora installation
after detecting it under (I beleive) it is /mnt/sysimage? Which I hope
it would.

It would be helpfull if you can post fdisk -l and /boot/grub/device.map
to advice you reinstalling grub.

Regards!
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