On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Doctor Who <whodoctor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Is there perhaps a BIOS setting that should be changed? I think I remember something from an earlier Fedora install where I had to change something like that to get Fedora to boot properly that, for some reason, did not affect other distros on these drives. Thanks for any assistance. -- 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
