On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Doctor Who <whodoctor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All- > > I have a desktop machine with 3 SATA drives. I have a separate OS on > each drive and use the graphical boot manager GAG > (gag.sourceforge.net) to boot into each of the 3 OS's. I had Fedora > 11 installed on the second drive (sdb). Rather than try an update, I > did a clean install of FC13 from DVD in which I re-formatted my / > directory (sdb1) and left my separate /home partition unformatted. > > Due to using GAG, I specified that the boot loader should be installed > on sdb1 (rather than sdb). This is how I've done it in the past and > done with the other distros I have installed on sda and sdc. However, > once the install finishes, the media is ejected, and I'm asked to > reboot, choosing to boot from sdb1 via GAG produced a hang > (essentially a black screen with a single _ or - in the upper left > hand corner of the screen. > > I thought maybe I had to specify a dedicated /boot partition of at > least 512MB, so I performed the install again, this time specifying > sdb1 as /boot and sdb2 as / and to install the boot loader to sdb1 > with sdb2 defaulting to the Fedora install. Same result. > > The install media is verified as good. I next grabbed the FC13 Live > CD and performed an 'Install to Hard Disk' from that again specifying > that the boot loader be installed to sdb1 (/boot). This time, when > selecting to boot Fedora 13 after the initial installation reboot, the > screen is black and then the computer start the POST and reboots to > GAG (no hang like before, just an apparent failed boot and quickly > reboots the machine). No error messages seen in either case. > > Any ideas on what may be going on here? > > Thanks! > To add...I just did an install of Mandriva 2009 on this same drive and installed the bootloader on sdb1. Reboot after install was successful, so it doesn't appear to be hardware or GAG related. Any insight is appreciated. -- 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
