Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-15 Thread Sam Varshavchik
David Howells writes: It took a long time to load from grub1 for me too - several minutes. Loading it by hand from grub2 was much quicker. I had the joy of doing the latter as two of the three machines I upgraded to F-16 failed to boot thereafter. I waited 10-15 minutes, no go. On one I ha

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-15 Thread David Howells
Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me stare at a blank > screen, and the only available option, apparently, was the three- > fingered salute. I wrote it off as an F15 glitch. > > Now, same story with F16. Looks like I have to do a real PXE boot. No

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 08:13 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Two F16 reinstalls later, each time fiddling with the mdraid partition > layouts, yet each time producing the same results, I found > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Cannot_boot_with_.2Fboot_partition_on_a_software_RAID_

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-14 Thread Henrik Nordström
lör 2011-11-12 klockan 09:04 -0500 skrev Sam Varshavchik: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying > over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and > directing grub to load them. This is also how I install. Have worked fine with bot

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-13 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:30 -0500, SV (Sam) wrote: > F16 grub2 > barfed and refused to install, when I got around to installing it via PXE. > The machine survived a reboot, thanks to the F15 version of grub that was > left intact. Removed grub2, installed F16 grub, app

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:30 -0500, SV (Sam) wrote: > F16 grub2 > barfed and refused to install, when I got around to installing it via PXE. > The machine survived a reboot, thanks to the F15 version of grub that was > left intact. Removed grub2, installed F16 grub, applied all updates. The

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread M A Young
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying > over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and > directing grub to load them. > > Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me star

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Michael Schwendt writes: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:04:33 -0500, SV (Sam) wrote: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying > over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and > directing grub to load them. > > Up until F14 this worked fine.

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:04:33 -0500, SV (Sam) wrote: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying > over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and > directing grub to load them. > > Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz m

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Frank Murphy writes: On 12/11/11 14:04, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by > copying over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into > menu.lst, and directing grub to load them. > > Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/v

Re: Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread Frank Murphy
On 12/11/11 14:04, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by > copying over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into > menu.lst, and directing grub to load them. > > Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me stare at

Getting grub launching the installer

2011-11-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
For the longest time, I was able to upgrade an existing system by copying over the pxeboot vmlinuz and initrd.img, sticking them into menu.lst, and directing grub to load them. Up until F14 this worked fine. F15's pxeboot/vmlinuz made me stare at a blank screen, and the only available optio