On Monday 22 March 2010, charles zeitler wrote: >Do what thou wilt >shall be the whole of the Law. > >On 3/21/10, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I started an install of f12 on what is /dev/sdb here, after using >> gparted to set it up, and figured out a way to get around the disk config >> in anaconda. >> >> I answered a few questions, and it looked as if it was headed off to do >> it all by itself, so I toddled off to do a bit of walnut machining for >> several hours. >> >> On return, I had a hell of a time getting my monitor to unblank, > >darn power-saving technique scares me when it happens. :) ><space bar> , mouse moving didn't work? > Nah, it will eventually start, and from some googling, it appears I need to haul it up to the tv station & make use of the capacitor wizard I bought before I retired. Bad caps in the PSU, they have to warm up before they work somewhere near right. Which also explains the occasional odor of something hot in this little man cave that I haven't been able to run down. That little $175 gizmo is the slickest thing for finding bad caps I've ever seen. In a busy shop, it will pay for itself the first week in troubleshooting time saved. >so I guess > >> this BS with the ATI driver, radeon, has finally gotten to the ccfl lamp >> in my monitor, and its just about 18 months old. >> >> However, when I tried to use the exit button in that cd's simple gui, >> there was no response until I right clicked on the screen, but since it >> was running >> from the cd, it would not eject at any point during the reboot, and I >> finally >> killed the power for the 2nd time and managed to grab it in the 2 seconds >> between getting it to eject, and the bios sucking it back in. I expected >> it to boot F12, but there was no sign of F12 in the grub menu. Just my >> regular menu. > >and no first-boot screen? you might have an incomplete install... There is a grub installed on the first drive and the 4th drive, and I have been booting the 4th drive by copying its vmlinuz etc to the first drives boot partition but naming the 4th drives partitions as I can't get a chainload to work there either. I did have it working to the 2nd drive for a while, booting Mint8-x64, but I did something to mint and it won't boot anymore, so I overwrote it with F12. If it installed grub in /dev/sdb's MBR, I should be able to do this. Unforch, I have not found a tool which can read the MBR and tell if it is. dd of course can pull it, but I have NDI how to interpret that output. The string 'GRUB' does exist in it, sstartiong at offset 0179, but that could be leftovers from the old mint install FAIK. >however... > >> So I booted normally to F10 & kernel 2.6.34-rc2, and I have now tried to >> add a chainloader stanza to my grub.conf here on /dev/sda1 that will >> cause it to reload grub from /dev/sdb1. > >instead of chaining, you could try: >making a copy of your F10 stanza, >and editing its fields to point to the paths/files on sdb. Which of course limits me to a verse of grub.conf for each kernel installed, and easy thing to do with mandriva since they default the boot names to softlinks from vmlinuz to whatever the latest kernel installed is, same for the initrd. But Fedora doesn't, which will be the case if I ever get it booted and let the update run, and then of course it won't be able to find the old, been removed kernel. Mint8's grub 2 screen looks cool FWTW. >> Is anything missing? Slash would appear to be there, but I haven't wandered around and found where I put /home yet, shoulda wrote it down I guess, and I'd like to make /root a separate partition too, I have it separate here on F10 after I copied the F10 from a failing drive to a fresh 1Tb drive, which sped this box up by about 4x, so I may just re-install again. But that is only a 370GB drive. With the monitor problem being foremost, it will be a day or so before I get back to this. I have another Samsung digital tv I can use for a monitor and have for troubleshooting another box, its tuner failed but its awfully close to be too darned big for the space it has to fit into. Tape measure time I guess. ;-) Many Thanks Charles. >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> >> I do desire we may be better strangers. >> -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" >> -- > >Love is the law, love under will. > >charles zeitler > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Somewhere in suburban Honolulu, an unemployed bellhop is whipping up a batch of illegal psilocybin chop suey!! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
