On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Ok. Given the totality of my experience so far combined with the many
replies I've received in this thread, I was inclined to believe that
starting with a Mac-formatted disk was really causing me serious
trouble.
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 03:15 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
So I tried your suggested of writing zeros over the beginning of the
drive, not very hopeful. But it worked! The install proceeded without
a hitch and the PC booted the installed OS. (Add fanfare.)
However, now that the system is running,
Alan Evans wrote:
Ok. Given the totality of my experience so far combined with the many
replies I've received in this thread, I was inclined to believe that
starting with a Mac-formatted disk was really causing me serious
trouble.
I really need a working system here, so i decided to save
Alan Evans wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Evansame.fed...@gmail.com wrote:
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
repatriated from a broken iMac.
I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall
image and installed the whole thing over
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
repatriated from a broken iMac.
I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall
image and installed the whole thing over my home
On 08/08/09 23:11, Alan Evans wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
Did you try
when in rescue mode
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda1
and see what happens.
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Frank Murphy
(Frankly3D)frankl...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/08/09 23:11, Alan Evans wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
Did you try
when in rescue mode
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda1
and see what happens.
On 09/08/09 09:32, Alan Evans wrote:
--snip--
Reading some of your newer replies.
My mistake
This should have been
grub-install /dev/sda2
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the result is identical.
Is there any way you can capture what does come up on screen,
how far you get. Even if
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
On 09/08/09 09:32, Alan Evans wrote:
--snip--
Reading some of your newer replies.
My mistake
This should have been
grub-install /dev/sda2
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the result is identical.
Is there any way you can
On 09/08/09 09:40, Alan Evans wrote:
--snip--
What comes up in response to the grub-install? It's exactly what I
posted a couple messages back:
sh-4.0# chroot /mnt/sysimage
sh-4.0# grub-install /dev/sda2
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
No, I meant if you try and boot normally.
from the hard disk, without any cd\dvd
Sorry, I thought I must be misunderstanding your question. Removing
the rescue disc from the CD drive results in:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM
On 09/08/09 10:09, Alan Evans wrote:
I don't have a LiveCD handy, only the netinstall CD. Downloading a
LiveCD would take me a very long time.
Send me you postal address *offlist*.
and I will send you on one.
Your preference Gnome\KDE\XFCE
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Frankly3d
On 09/08/09 10:09, Alan Evans wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
No, I meant if you try and boot normally.
from the hard disk, without any cd\dvd
Sorry, I thought I must be misunderstanding your question. Removing
the rescue disc from the CD drive results
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
I don't have a LiveCD handy, only the netinstall CD. Downloading a
LiveCD would take me a very long time.
Send me you postal address *offlist*.
and I will send you on one.
That's very kind of you, sir, but hardly efficient.
If
Alan,
see in-line ...
Alan Evans wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
repatriated from a broken iMac.
I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the
On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
repatriated from a broken iMac.
snip
I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 02:35 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
Are we really at a stopping point until I have one? I'm desperate
enough that I toyed with the idea of allowing fdisk to clear the
partition table then rerun the installer and interrupt it just after
it writes the default partitions to disk
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 01:17 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition
(two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition
table is invalid.
I suppose there's a chance that fdisk partitions a drive differently
than how Anaconda
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:02:42 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
repatriated from a broken iMac.
snip
I'm still
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition
(two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition
table is invalid.
The kernel is capable of dealing with HFS (Apple) partitions!
I
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Mikkel L.
Ellertsonmik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition
(two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition
table is
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 19:41 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
I used fdisk to fix the apparently broken partition table. For good
measure, I even created a dummy partition and ran mke2fs on it to
assure the drive was in good shape.
If you were erasing the drive, rather than *fix* the partition table,
On 08/08/09 21:43, Alan Evans wrote:
--snip--
I booted from the
install CD and selected rescue mode.
Rescue mode mounted /dev/sda2 on /mnt/sysimage. I looked and the
install appears intact.
I ran fdisk on /dev/sda and it complained, Device contains neither a
valid DOS partition table, nor
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
Did you try
when in rescue mode
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda1
and see what happens.
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table signature
Unknown partition table
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alan Evansame.fed...@gmail.com wrote:
Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
repatriated from a broken iMac.
I didn't have install disks handy, so I downloaded the netinstall
image and installed the whole thing over my home DSL. This
Thanks to magic keys, I was able to semi-debug the issue.
Apparently, F11 waits for a device to be mounted to continue at this
point. The script that does this normally prints out this info -- but
apparently the caller dumps it into /dev/null.
In other words, the problem is hidden.
This laptop
Frank Murphy wrote:
snip
The fault you found check if they are known bugs,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs
Nope, none of those
Then check agains bugzilla for any that may be relevant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478893
Yep, already saw it. acpi=off worked
On 15/06/09 01:01, Konstantin Svist wrote:
What's my next step?
I was able to install F8 onto this laptop, somehow (think I had to use a
netinstall CD)
Alternately, how do I start the install process from the Live CD if I'm
in F8? I tried mounting squashfs.img (failed) and tried unsquashfs
Frank Murphy wrote:
On 15/06/09 01:01, Konstantin Svist wrote:
What's my next step?
I was able to install F8 onto this laptop, somehow (think I had to use a
netinstall CD)
Alternately, how do I start the install process from the Live CD if I'm
in F8? I tried mounting squashfs.img (failed)
On 15/06/09 17:37, Konstantin Svist wrote:
Frank Murphy wrote:
snip
The fault you found check if they are known bugs,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs
Then check agains bugzilla for any that may be relevant:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478893
Rem rhgb and
DB freddog...@yahoo.co.uk writes:
I'm now trying to find a script that will clean /tmp automatically on
a regular basis. (I think part of the backlog is due to the switch
from Gnome to KDE)
I clean my /tmp on each orderly shutdown. That way if the system
crashes, my /tmp is preserved but
Sorry all, hit send too quick forgot to change the subject line
(again!) Mea maxima culpa. Dave
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 00:39:34 -0700
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Can't boot after an update
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Message-ID
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 23 May 2009 20:41:16 DB wrote:
Anyone got any thoughts as to what might have happened how I might get
past this %(%$$ login??
Many thanks (again) for any help
Unlikely as it seems, it looks as though something has messed up your /home
ownership. Use
Message: 13 Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:39:39 +0200 From: Kevin Kofler
kevin.kof...@chello.at Subject: Re: Can't boot after an update To:
fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: gv9tvb$6v...@ger.gmane.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii DB wrote:
Got myself to a CLI, logged
On Sunday 24 May 2009 21:36:12 DB wrote:
Message: 13 Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:39:39 +0200 From: Kevin Kofler
kevin.kof...@chello.at Subject: Re: Can't boot after an update To:
fedora-list@redhat.com Message-ID: gv9tvb$6v...@ger.gmane.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii DB
DB wrote:
Got myself to a CLI, logged on as root, edited inittab to start in level
3. Login under my normal username is accepted, try startx, screen
flashes some text (something about authority, I think from the bit I can
see), screen goes black then comes back to the CLI with several repeats
-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Patrick
O'Callaghan
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:47 PM
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Can't boot!
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles
William M. Quarles wrote:
OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times I've tried
to boot it, the boot has failed, and also, the keyboard stops responding
(so CtrlAltanything doesn't work). This thing is behaving very
inconsistently, because it just did a successful boot and I
-Original Message-
From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Patrick
O'Callaghan
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:47 PM
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Can't boot!
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles
On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote:
The computer seems to die right about when X is about to
start.
Can you try ctrlaltF1 (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console
login is on?
--
(stephan paul) Arif Sahari Wibowo
/___ /___/ /___/ /___
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote:
The computer seems to die right about when X is about to start.
Can you try ctrlaltF1 (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console login is
on?
OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times I've tried
to
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote:
The computer seems to die right about when X is about to start.
Can you try ctrlaltF1 (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console login is
on?
OK, this
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Antonio Olivares
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Dave Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to boot the old fc9 live CD on a Dell
Optiplex 755. It gets
to the point where X is supposed to start and the screen
goes wonky,
apparently crashes. I
--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Dave Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Dave Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't boot fc9 live CD on Optiplex 755
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
fedora-list@redhat.com
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 6:45 PM
I'm trying to
44 matches
Mail list logo
