Fedora

James McDonald james at jamesmcdonald.id.au
Fri May 28 03:22:14 PDT 2010


On 28/05/10 19:40, James McDonald wrote:
> On 27/05/10 00:43, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> Fedora question. I'm a Debian user, thinking of having a look at the 
>> new Fedora release. Any warnings, gotchas, whatever, I should be 
>> aware of before installing on my multi-boot desktop?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>> Ken Moffat
>
> I downloaded the LIVE cd of F13 and ran the "install to harddisk" icon 
> on the desktop...
>
> Tried three or so times and each time I got a grub boot prompt nothing 
> more....
>
> I was going to dual boot with U10.04 but I ended up blowing it all 
> away to allow the F13 installer to install using it's defaults but 
> still straight into GRUB no further.
>
> Something seriously fishy with the way it behaved.
>
> But possibly because my computer is stoneaged and I have a 200 and a 
> 500 GB disk which confused it's GRUB install targetting or something 
> or maybe the Ubuntu version of GRUB is / was incompatible with F13.
>
> Sadly I didn't get to the bottom of it.
>

Seems like a long standard anaconda bug I've run into 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596040




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