Fedora 8

[Karl Larsen]

Konstantin Svist wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Well I installed F8 and the trouble started. It booted fine but as 
>> usual the Nvidia was all bad. I had to write the proper things in 
>> /etc/X11/file that got the pointer working. 
>
> Wasn't there a workaround where turning off rhgb would make the 
> pointer appear properly?
    Nope The very first thing I did was delete the rhgb thing but it did 
not bring back the pointer.

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>> But then the worst possible grub bug showed up! I tried to boot to F7 
>> but it was impossible :-(
>>
>>    After a few tests I discovered that the F7 boot partition was 
>> (hd0,5) and the F8 boot partition was (hd0,5). I tried to get F7 
>> booted but no luck. I finally unplugged the god dam SATA hard drive, 
>> re-did the grub thing from the rescue CD and here I am back on F7 :-)
>>
>>    The Grub problem is because both boot partitions are partition 6. 
>> I will fix this tomorrow.
>
> Do you mean grub.conf was messed up (and pointed both installs to 
> (hd0,5))?
    No! F7 is on an ide hard drive. F8 is on a SATA hard drive. But 
alas, the boot partitions are both (hd?,5) and with my odd BIOS F7 was 
never selected. I will have to move boot to another partition on either 
hard drive. Then see if it works.
> That should be pretty easy to fix.
>
> If you mean your F7 partition was killed during install, it's either a 
> major fuckup in F8 installer (not likely), or you chose to overwrite 
> it during install...
none of the above.

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