Re: [LAU] [OT] Fedora installation problem

Hi,

tell your BIOS to boot from the new harddrive first. Modern BIOS'es hava
a key which you can press at startup to get a list of devices to boot
from. For older BIOS'es you have to go to the BIOS settings and change
the boot order there..

Have fun,
Flo

On 09/14/2011 12:43 PM, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Hopefully someone here has a similar setup and can help me out.
>
> Yesterday I installed a nice new Seagate 1T drive in my main machine.
> No problems with the physical installation, and the BIOS recognizes
> the drive. Next I installed Fedora 14 (x86_64) on the new drive.
> Again, no problems with the actual installation. On reboot my troubles
> started.
>
> I already have a system on this machine, an ancient 64 Studio 2.1 that
> works beautifully. Alas, it's very old, hence the second drive and new
> install. The old system is on /dev/sda1, with a swap at /dev/sda5. The
> new disk is /dev/sdb, and the new system is on /dev/sdb1 and
> /dev/sdb2. On reboot the machine went directly to the old grub menu
> for 64 Studio, which had no entry for Fedora.
>
> Before going further, I should note that I can't even mount the new
> disk while in 64 Studio. The older system doesn't recognize ext4 file
> systems, so I can't access the second drive.
>
> Okay, back to the boot. I used AV Linux to access the new drive and
> copied its grub entry to the old grub. Now when I boot I can see and
> select the Fedora entry, but I receive errors whether I attempt the
> boot from sdb1(hd1,0) or sdb2 (hd1,1). Sorry, I don't remember the
> error numbers, I'll get them and send them if needed. The installation
> media was without checksum errors, so the installed system should be
> ready to go. I just can't figure out how to boot into it from my
> existing menu.
>
> So my questions are: How can I get this machine to recognize the new
> installation ? Do I need to re-install and manually configure grub ?
> Is the 64 Studio boot loader simply too old to handle the new
> configuration ? The new grub menu.lst include a line "boot=/dev/sdb"
> but it appears to mean nothing to the older grub.
>
> I've pasted what I think are the relevant contents of the 64 Studio
> menu.lst at the end of this message, in case anyone cares to
> investigate and advise. I don't mind re-installing if necessary, but
> it would be nice to avoid that expenditure of time. Suggestions for
> fixing would be much appreciated. :)
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
>
> -------------------- begin 64 Studio grub menu.lst
> -----------------------
>
> title 64 Studio, kernel 2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64 root=/dev/sda1
> ro vga=771 splash=silent
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64
> savedefault
>
> title 64 Studio, kernel 2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64 (single-user
> mode)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64 root=/dev/sda1
> ro vga=771 splash=silent single
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64
> savedefault
>
>
> ------------------- the new addition ------------------
>
>
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
> file
> # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
> # initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
>
> # boot=/dev/sdb
> # default=0
> # timeout=0
> # splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> # hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64)
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root
> rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64.img
>
>
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