On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Rick Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a fedup from F17 to F18 on my work desktop. Now I get an infinite > boot loop. Fdisk can't look at the partition table of /dev/sda because > it has been coverted to GPT format (who did that?). > > As near as I can tell, the boot process fails after about 1 page of > output near where "/" should be mounted. I can't see the error message > because it reboots too quickly. > > Doing a rescue with an F17 bootable flash drive allows me to at least > mount my /boot and / partitions, so I guess F17 understands the GPT > conversion. It won't however, recognize the new system to do a boot > sector repair. Should I try with an F18 bootable flash drive? > > Under the F17 debug prompt /dev/sda2 (boot) and /dev/sda4 (root) > both give clean fsck checks. > > I appreciate any suggestions. > > kind regards, > -- > Rick Walker > > > It's not much help, but my solution would be to backup and install F18 from CD / other source, however, there might be a better solution coming from someone with a lot more knowledge. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
