On 06/05/10 01:33, badmagic wrote: > > Over the years, I've installed Solaris/SolarisExpress, every kind of BSD > as well as almost ever Linux distro that's out there and never have I > had a problem like this. > > Is there some known bug about installing Fedora on a drive other than > the Primary Master? > > This time I installed the boot loader on the first sector of the boot > partition - /dev/sdb1 > > I then installed an entry in XOSL to point to/dev/sdb1, booted from it > and got a screen full of blinking colorful ascii chars. > > It really doesn't work. > > Can someone tell me what's going on - Please? > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Fwd: Problem with boot loader > Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 09:43:46 +1000 > From: badmagic <badmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > I'm going to try to re-install FC12. Has anybody got a suggestion before > I start? > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Problem with boot loader > Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 15:04:29 +1000 > From: badmagic <badmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Hi all, > > I have 2 SATA drives - Windows on the sda and have just installed FC12 > on sdb. I installed > the boot loader on sdb. > > Now, I'm using the XOSL boot manager (installed on its own dedicated > primary partition > on sda). > > If I change the boot sequence in the BIOS to boot from the disk that has > the Fedora install > on it, it boots fine but if I try to boot from XOSL, I just get a black > screen with the cursor > flashing in the top left corner. Does anyone know what's going on and > how to fix it? > > Regards, > Steve Laurie > Did you set the active boot partition to /dev/sdb1 in Fdisk ? Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 50 401593+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 51 312 2104515 82 Linuxswap/Solaris /dev/sdb3 313 8668 67119570 83 Linux And did ou set teh BIOS Boot drive correctly ? -- 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
