Problems Installing Fedora x86_64

[Daniel J Celta]

Craig,
I got it, I had to change the BIOS and disable the built in RAID.   
After talking to the manufacturer of the motherboard, I found out the  
driver wasn't compatible with Fedora 10.

Regadless thanks for the help and patience

Cheers


On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> well, the installer always puts grub.conf in /boot/grub/grub.conf  
> and if
> it isn't there, you aren't going to be able to boot.
>
> Apparently during the installation, you must have told the installer  
> to
> put grub somewhere other than the default location. You probably  
> want to
> re-install and use the defaults unless you are sure...especially  
> when it
> asks you where to install the bootloader.
>
> Also, fwiw, make a 100Mb RAID 1 partition for /boot on all of the
> drives.
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 01:07 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>> Craig,
>> Keep in mind I am trying.
>>
>> After I do "chroot /mnt/sysimage"
>> grub-install /dev/sda fails
>>
>> I do find a boot/grub folder but no file under the name grub.conf.
>>
>> The files I find are the same as the ones shown below.
>>
>> Thanks for your patience
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 00:25 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>>>> Ok I fou d the folder under
>>>>
>>>> /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub
>>>>
>>>> The files under this folder are:
>>>>
>>>> Device.map
>>>> E2fs_stage1_5
>>>> fat_stage1_5
>>>> ffs_stage1_5
>>>> iso9660_stage1_5
>>>> jfs_stage1_5
>>>> minix_stage1_5
>>>> reiserfs_stage1_5
>>>> stage1
>>>> stage2
>>>> ufs2_stage1_5
>>>> vstafs_stage1_5
>>>> xfs_stage1_5
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:34 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>>>>>> Craig,
>>>>>> Like you said the command "grub-install -v /dev/sda" works.
>>>>>> It returs the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After exit the chroot and the shell reboot.
>>>>>> Andafter taking out the DVD,  the computer hangs and do not do
>>>>>> anyting......????
>>>>> ----
>>>>> you can try 'grub-install -v /dev/sdb' and then for sdc and sdd -
>>>>> the
>>>>> thinking is that the device order is different when you boot from
>>>>> DVD
>>>>> and when you don't.
>>>>>
>>>>> If that fails, you might want to post the contents
>>>>> of /boot/grub/grub.conf
>>> ----
>>> It would be helpful if you followed the instructions that I have  
>>> given
>>> you twice already, to chroot to the installed files.
>>>
>>> You must 'linux rescue' boot which you are doing.
>>>
>>> After it locates the partitions, you must type the command...
>>>
>>> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>>>
>>> at that point, you should have a /boot with a /boot/grub directory
>>> and a
>>> file called /boot/grub/grub.conf
>>>
>>> if you haven't done the chroot command, and you don't have a /boot
>>> directory with a /boot/grub directory inside, any grub-install  
>>> command
>>> will fail.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>
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