Fedora

[James McDonald]

On 28 May 2010 20:22, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:

> 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
>
> OK Got it working...

My setup /dev/sda houses ubuntu 10.04 with GRUB 2 installed in /dev/sda the
rest is swap etc.
The second drive /dev/sdb has one 400GB partition which is a data partition
the remaining now contains the F13 intall

Seems that all the combinations I tried previously involve F13 stomping on
the wrong drive / partition.

So now this time I booted F13 LIVE CD and chose to install to the Free space
(on sdb) left the defaults and it installed it's boot loader into /dev/sdb
which isn't seen because sda is booted first leading straight into Ubuntu.
Another problem is that Fedora's grub is v1 and Ubuntu's is v2.

To get F13 recognized I installed lvm2 in ubuntu and did sudo vgchange -ay
which recognized and activated the F13 vg... then ran sudo update-grub2 and
as if by magic it found the F13 install and added it to the Ubuntu GRUB2
boot menu.

Fedora has done some really good work with the volume group stuff they names
are no longer VolGroup00 but really descriptive... vg_hostname and lv_root
and lv_swap leave no doubt as to what  you are looking at.

Also love booting straight into X.
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