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,
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 took nearly
a day and a half, and I don't want to repeat that process if I
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
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