Eee PC Boot Problem

[rgheck]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:49 -0400, rgheck wrote:
>   
>> I've solved this problem, but thought I'd report it anyway.
>>
>> I twice installed F11 on my Eee 1000 and both times I was unable to boot 
>> afterwards. All I'd get was the grub command line. The issue seems to be 
>> that the presence of the USB key is confusing the grub installer, and 
>> it's setting up grub with the wrong (hdX) stuff. I was able to fix this 
>> by re-installing grub, but obviously that is not for the meek.
>>     
>
> Just to add another data point: I originally installed F10 on my Eee1000
> (from a pendrive of course) and it worked fine. I later used preupgrade
> to go to F11 and it also worked. So if indeed Grub is confused by the
> pendrive, it looks like a regression.
>
>   
To add another, I had tried using preupgrade to go from F10 to F11, but
it failed. A lot of packages got installed, and then it died complaining
about being "unable to find root of previous installation", or something
like that. I didn't find anything by googling, so gave up and re-installed.

If there's one thing about Fedora that annoys me, it is how difficult it
is to upgrade versions. It's enough seriously to tempt me to abandon ship.

Richard