<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 May 2010 20:22, James McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 28/05/10 19:40, James McDonald wrote:<br>
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On 27/05/10 00:43, Ken Moffat wrote:<br>
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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?<br>
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I downloaded the LIVE cd of F13 and ran the "install to harddisk" icon on the desktop...<br>
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Tried three or so times and each time I got a grub boot prompt nothing more....<br>
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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.<br>
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Something seriously fishy with the way it behaved.<br>
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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.<br>
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Sadly I didn't get to the bottom of it.<br>
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Seems like a long standard anaconda bug I've run into <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596040" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596040</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div>OK Got it working...<br><br>My setup /dev/sda houses ubuntu 10.04 with GRUB 2 installed in /dev/sda the rest is swap etc.<br>The second drive /dev/sdb has one 400GB partition which is a data partition the remaining now contains the F13 intall<br>
<br>Seems that all the combinations I tried previously involve F13 stomping on the wrong drive / partition.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>
Also love booting straight into X.<br><br><br>