On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:16:11 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT)
> > Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >
> >> Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there
> >> also. Frustration is bad for my brain. I
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there also.
Frustration is bad for my brain. Ignore my previous request on this
subject. I know how to change the boot hard disk in my
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:33:49 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> Since /boot and / are on disk sdb, I'd like the bootloader there also.
> Frustration is bad for my brain. Ignore my previous request on this
> subject. I know how to change the boot hard disk in my BIOS.
> What else do I need to
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Well, I screwed up royally again.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:04:47 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> There is something wrong with your install.
I think the problem was that
Well, I screwed up royally again.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:04:47 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> There is something wrong with your install.
>
> You can try rebuilding your rpm database as root.
> rpm --rebuilddb
> Thi
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:04:47 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> > There is something wrong with your install.
> >
> > You can try rebuilding your rpm database as root.
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> > This will take a while, depending on your package count.
>
> Tha
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:28:43 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
I couldn't use the kickstart file.
I kept getting messages like this:
Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a
missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your
install tree has
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:28:43 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> I managed to boot from the F13, F14 and F15 install isos.
> Still no go with F16.
>
> To boot F13, I needed to point at a partition
> that was a copy of the F13 iso.
> To boot F14 and F15, I needed to point at a
> filesystem that
I managed to boot from the F13, F14 and F15 install isos.
Still no go with F16.
To boot F13, I needed to point at a partition
that was a copy of the F13 iso.
To boot F14 and F15, I needed to point at a
filesystem that had their respective isos as files.
For F15, I did the install. F16 seems to
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> > I think pentium 4 is fairly old hardware. I doubt either the kernel
> > developers or Fedora developers are using such hardware, and so you
> > could be hitting a regression that wasn't caugh
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Note:" without making any additional physical media", i.e, no DVD, just the iso
Note: "use your existing GRUB boot loader"
It assumes that I have grub2. I don't.
That is why I didn't use it.
I think you are wrong here;
the F16 is first to use gru
On 03/23/2012 03:42 PM, jackson byers wrote:
I think you are wrong here;
the F16 is first to use grub2, yes.
But the f16 doc says to use your*existing* GRUB boot loader,
which for your F14 is your legacy GRUB.
If you upgrade to F16, you'll have grub2 installed, but you'll still be
using le
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> > I think pentium 4 is fairly old hardware. I doubt either the kernel
> > developers or Fedora developers are using such hardware, and so you
> > could be hitting a regression that wasn't caugh
>> Note:" without making any additional physical media", i.e, no DVD, just the
>> iso
>> Note: "use your existing GRUB boot loader"
>It assumes that I have grub2. I don't.
>That is why I didn't use it.
I think you are wrong here;
the F16 is first to use grub2, yes.
But the f16 doc says to us
I really hate it when the assumption that I
am stupid gets in the way of communication.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Michael,
Your responses have me more and more confused as to exactly
what you are trying to do:
Install F16.
My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:23:54 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
>> I have noticed that all my kernels end in .PAE .
>> Could that be significant?
Oops. I should have written .PAE.img
Kernels don't end in .img, that's the
Michael,
Your responses have me more and more confused as to exactly
what you are trying to do:
>My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
>I copied FC13's vmlinuz to a hard drive and
>tried again with the grub command line.
>I have F14 installed, but F13 is the most recent DVD I
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:23:54 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
>
> > Perhaps Grub2 is using it somehow? These suggestions are longshots.
>
> grub2 is not installed on my machine.
> If it's packaged with the install kernel,
> then I would expecct them to be
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:04:16 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> Is it possible that the kernel isn't relocatable? i.e. it expects
> to run from a specific address, and that address isn't available.
> I'm not
Do you mean
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:04:16 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
>
> > Is it possible that the kernel isn't relocatable? i.e. it expects
> > to run from a specific address, and that address isn't available.
> > I'm not
>
> Do you mean a RAM address?
> How wo
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
Is it possible that the kernel isn't relocatable? i.e. it expects to
run from a specific address, and that address isn't available. I'm not
Do you mean a RAM address?
How would a RAM address not be available?
sure how to check that, but the boot directory
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:01:25 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:
>
> > 2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry :
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> #The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz
> >> #and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on
> >> #the is
2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry :
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:
>
>> 2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry :
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> #The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz
>>> #and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on
>>> #the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:
2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry :
[...]
#The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz
#and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on
#the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/
#is the directory where I saved
2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry :
[...]
> #The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz
> #and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on
> #the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/
> #is the directory where I saved the iso image (where
> #the /zooty m
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Michael,
did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
Yes. See my previous reply.
done some experimenting since.
My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
I let it get as far as offering to test the media. I can't find my F14 disk.
I
>>Michael,
>>did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
>Yes. See my previous reply.
> done some experimenting since.
>My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
>I let it get as far as offering to test the media. I can't find my F14 disk.
>I copied FC13's vmlinuz to a hard driv
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Michael,
did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
Yes. See my previous reply.
I've done some experimenting since.
My machine can still boot from my FC13 installation disk.
I let it get as far as offering to test the media. I can't find my F14 dis
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, jackson byers wrote:
Michael,
did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
Yes.
did you first extract the vmlinuz, initrd.img from the /isolinux/
directory on the iso?
Yes.
did you then create a grub.conf install stanza, following Horsley's example?
Note that he us
Michael,
did you follow the Andras->Tom Horsley link?
did you first extract the vmlinuz, initrd.img from the /isolinux/
directory on the iso?
did you then create a grub.conf install stanza, following Horsley's example?
Note that he uses the "repo=" option;
In my opinion you should try followi
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:
2012/3/20, Michael Hennebry :
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I have a bootable DVD iso that I can copy to a hard drive partition.
How, if at all, can I boot from that partition?
You may find this useful:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/
2012/3/20, Michael Hennebry :
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> I have a bootable DVD iso that I can copy to a hard drive partition.
>> How, if at all, can I boot from that partition?
>> My first thought is to chainload from grub,
>> but I can't figure out what to tell the chainlo
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I have a bootable DVD iso that I can copy to a hard drive partition.
How, if at all, can I boot from that partition?
My first thought is to chainload from grub,
but I can't figure out what to tell the chainload command.
The syntax of the command, I th
I have a bootable DVD iso that I can copy to a hard drive partition.
How, if at all, can I boot from that partition?
My first thought is to chainload from grub,
but I can't figure out what to tell the chainload command.
The syntax of the command, I think I understand.
The issue, I hope, is at what
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