Hi g; Good question, good point. On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:42 +0000, g wrote: > William Case wrote: > <snip> > > As I said, the double splash image doesn't prevent me from doing > > anything, so I'll let it sit for a couple of days. If no one (including > > me) comes up with a solution, I will file a bug against it. > > > > I just had the objective of after the fresh install of F9, working on > > cleaning up all the cruft, annoyances and problems I had accumulated and > > thereby have a washed, dried and polished system. > > something you have yet to mention, do you still have commercial boot loader > on sda, or did you 'fixmbr' and remove it? > It was Boot Magic. I was using it just because I was being stubborn. I bought Partition Magic which included the Boot Magic program before I started exploring Linux. "I paid for it; I am going to use it." I was expecting the whole thing to out date itself any day soon, so its death didn't surprise me. I haven't 'fixmbr' -ed yet. But I did replace the mbr or at least part of it with grub when I made my original mistake, if I did, in fact, make an uncorrected mistake. This whole video mode question has thrown that open. > something which has not been suggested to try; > > 'dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.hex bs=256 count=1' > > 'dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdb.hex bs=256 count=1' > That is a very good suggestion on checking for any lingering remnants of either Boot Magic or a misplaced grub. None of the usual file finders was showing me anything useful. I am going to let it be for a couple of days and collect my thoughts. And then, give it a last try on a quiet Sunday morning. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
