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! -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- This sentence no verb. -- . - ~|~ = -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
