On 3/17/2012 8:03 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
I have an install DVD that I used to do a fresh install of F16 onto a
i386/686 machine. I then used it to do a fresh install of a second
machine. Midway through the formatting/partitioning, it "popped up a
bug". When I reported it, it pointed me to 743778 which was closed as
"notabug". At that point, the machine was at some unknown state in its
formatting.
I now have a machine that is "a brick". There is no operating system on
it as that got destroyed and any attempts to do a fresh install come
back with "No usable disks have been found" and I can't make any
progress. Nothing could be done in the troubleshoot options except get a
dmesg, which I have attached to this email.
Is this one of these times where I need to get something like
partedmagic and figure out how to format/partition from there? If so,
anyone done this before and can give pointers. If not, what other
options do I have.
You need to visit www.sysresccd.org and download the iso. Burn to a
CD or install unto a USB drive (instructions on the website). It has
all of the nice tools you need and runs as a 'live-cd' to allow you to
fix things.
Note that if you got to the partitioning portion of the Fedora16
install, and let anaconda set the partitioning, then it is now using
gpt and not the usual mbr scheme. Recovery back to an ms-dos style mbr
is not difficult but takes a number of steps.
G.
G.:
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to look into it and Tim's fdisc
suggestion.
You would think an installation DVD which runs the risk of failure
during format/partitioning would have an "emergency" troubleshooting
option to get the machine back to a minimal sane state (assuming there
is not a hardware failure .... and if that is what happened to me it is
pretty amazing timing and you can obviously tell I have a choice way of
defining "amazing")
Paul
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