I managed to boot from the F13, F14 and F15 install isos. Still no go with F16. To boot F13, I needed to point at a partition that was a copy of the F13 iso. To boot F14 and F15, I needed to point at a filesystem that had their respective isos as files. For F15, I did the install. F16 seems to be impossible. I've still got crap. Here is the grub stanza: title Install Fedora15 from iso root (hd0,2) pause have rooted find /isolinux15/vmlinuz pause have finded kernel /isolinux15/vmlinuz askmethod pause have kerneled find /isolinux15/initrd.img pause have finded initrd /isolinux15/initrd.img pause have initrded # ks=http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/anaconda-ks.cfg I couldn't use the kickstart file. I kept getting messages like this: Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Fedora 15-i386. Please verify its path and try again. The kickstart file is attached. The old /boot was /dev/sdb2 . The new one is /dev/sda2 . When asking where to put the bootloader, the choices were the mbr of /dev/sdb or the first sector of /dev/sdb2 . I chose the latter. I'm not sure why the other mbr was not an option. When I first tried what was supposed to be the initial reboot, my old /boot , now called /shoe , was used. I pushed reset, went into setup and reversed the hard drive boot order. The result was not quite the blue screen of death. It also had the word GRUB. I pushed reset again, went into setup and reversed the hard drive boot order. This time I went into the grub command line and chainloaded into (hd0,1). I am currently using the result. How do I make my machine boot with the new /boot ? At the moment, I do not have vim or gvim. Here is what happened when I tried to get them: [root@localhost ~]# yum install gvim rpmdb: __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unexpected file type or format error: cannot open Name index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) rpmdb: __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unexpected file type or format error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit Adding en_US to language list rpmdb: __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unexpected file type or format rpmdb: __db_meta_setup: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unexpected file type or formatfedora/metalink | 24 kB 00:00 Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=i386 error was No repomd file
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again How do I get gvim? -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. #version=DEVEL install cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --onboot yes --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 #network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 timezone --utc America/North_Dakota/New_Salem rootpw --iscrypted $6$kwBdvuhPC0cEY23L$rXyZL5Scid5uGSOmh2DjKkVObujaNEVAZpNMfbuUSMQ3w96hKJBDYDXVv8AO4l9y5e8NHZalhYk0qYmZ2ZR1O/ selinux --enforcing authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --enablefingerprint firewall --service=ssh # The following is the partition information you requested # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is # not guaranteed to work #clearpart --none #part None --fstype=vfat --onpart=sda1 --noformat #part /boot --fstype=ext4 --onpart=sda2 #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="ide3" --onpart=sda3 --noformat #part swap --onpart=sda5 #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="/home" --onpart=sda6 --noformat #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="ide7" --onpart=sda7 --noformat #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="/home1" --onpart=sdb1 --noformat #part / --fstype=ext4 --onpart=sdb10 #part /var --fstype=ext4 --onpart=sdb11 #part /shoe --fstype=ext3 --label="/boot1" --onpart=sdb2 --noformat #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="/1" --onpart=sdb3 --noformat #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="/var1" --onpart=sdb5 --noformat #part swap --onpart=sdb6 #part None --fstype=ext3 --onpart=sdb7 --noformat #part None --fstype=ext3 --onpart=sdb8 --noformat #part None --fstype=ext3 --label="sata400-9" --onpart=sdb9 --noformat bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb --append="rhgb quiet" repo --name="Fedora 15 - i386" --baseurl=http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Everything/i386/os/ --cost=1000 repo --name='=Adobe Systems Incorporated' --baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/ # repo --name='=Evolution updates and EWS (Fedora_15)' --baseurl=http://download.meego.com/live/home:/dwmw2:/evo/Fedora_15/ # repo --name='=Fedora 15 - i386' --mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-15&arch=i386 #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/ # repo --name='=Fedora 15 - i386 - Updates' --mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f15&arch=i386 #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/15/i386/ # repo --name='=google-chrome' --baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 # repo --name='=RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Free' --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-15&arch=i386 #baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/ # repo --name='=RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Free - Updates' --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-updates-released-15&arch=i386 #baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/15/i386/ # repo --name='=RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Nonfree' --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-15&arch=i386 #baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/ # repo --name='=RPM Fusion for Fedora 15 - Nonfree - Updates' --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=nonfree-fedora-updates-released-15&arch=i386 #baseurl=http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/16/i386/ # repo --name='=Fedora 15 - i386 - VirtualBox' --baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/15/i386 # %packages @admin-tools @authoring-and-publishing @base @core @editors @engineering-and-scientific @fonts @gnome-desktop @games @graphical-internet @graphics @hardware-support @input-methods @java @office @online-docs @printing @sound-and-video @text-internet @base-x @xfce-desktop @kde-desktop xfsprogs mtools gpgme openoffice.org-opensymbol-fonts gvfs-obexftp hdparm gok iok vorbis-tools jack-audio-connection-kit ncftp gdm %end
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