On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 20:22 -0400, Jim wrote: > On 04/22/2014 12:53 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > > I had this same problem. > I install F20 on a second drive, Like sdb instead of sda ?? > I put a second drive in computer sdb and installed F20 on it but i > couldn't boot into F20 sdb it kept going back to F18 on sda, after all > the work on Grub2, the only way I could get it to work was to put the > NEW drive in as sda from sdb and original sda with F18 on it as sdb > by changing the cables on drives. > I then reinstalled F20 on sda and walla I can boot up on F20, F18, > and Windows 7. > > I don't know your configuration but that is how I got into work. LOL! Well, here's my case. F20 (and indeed F16) ARE on sdb. I used to have Windows on sda and my various linux partitions on sdb. Long ago I blew away Windows and use the sda drive as additional storage. Installing F14,15,&16 on sdb (with nothing bootable on sda) was never a problem. F20 seemed to be unable to update the bootloader properly (even though - on a second install, which I watched this time - it said "Installing Bootloader"). Doing grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and even grub2-install /dev/sdb from the F20 partition still failed to update it. The way I eventually got it to work was by downloading the boot-repair live-CD (http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/) and running it over the system. I have no idea what it did, but I now have a bootloader that I can use to boot into F20 (including the latest kernel - which, by the way doesn't work - but that will have to be the subject of a different thread...) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
