On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 18:09 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: > 2012-09-17 17:40 keltezéssel, Bruno Wolff III írta: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:38:33 -0400, > > Timothy Davis <cpuobsessed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> My system is an older Athlon FX-60 on a socket 939 nforce4 motherboard > >> with two SATA drives and one IDE hard drive > >> I wanted to install F18 on the IDE drive (140Gb WD) and went through > >> the steps and selected a number of packages to install > >> It appeared to installed just fine but when I went to boot into F18 it > >> didn't exist! I booted into my F17 install and checked the disk > >> with palimpset and it didn't find any partitions. I selected the > >> automatic partitioning and made sure that there were no partitions on > >> the disk when I started. > > > > Is the IDE drive your boot device? > > > > My first guess would be that it's booting off one of the sata drives, whose bootloader > > doesn't know about f18 on the IDE drive. > > "No partitions" would be a hint of a GPT partitioning scheme. > For Fedora 16, the "nogpt" boot option to Anaconda existed > and it made the installer use MSDOS partitioning instead. > A lot of mainboards cannot boot off a GPT partition. Doubt it, we dropped the GPT experiment. 18, like 17, uses MS-DOS labels in most cases, it'll only use GPT for EFI installs or disks of 3TB+ (or whatever the line is, I forget - really freaking huge disks.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
