Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread cornel panceac
2012/9/16 Adam Williamson > On 2012-09-15 8:20, cornel panceac wrote: > >> Thanks, but you still didn't say what options you chose during the run >>> of anaconda. >>> >> >> that's probably because i don't understand what options are you >> referring to: software to install? location? probably th

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-09-15 8:20, cornel panceac wrote: Thanks, but you still didn't say what options you chose during the run of anaconda. that's probably because i don't understand what options are you referring to: software to install? location?  probably the last thing i've choosed was whch of those two

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread cornel panceac
> > Thanks, but you still didn't say what options you chose during the run > of anaconda. > > that's probably because i don't understand what options are you referring to: software to install? location? probably the last thing i've choosed was whch of those two hard disks to use as an install targ

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 10:24 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > btw, thank you adam for voting against discarding this bug as a > blocker. i'd say that *knowing* that an operating system will destroy > existing data on certain conditions and still declaring it Alpha GOLD, > it's far from reasonable expe

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 09:27 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > You need to say what layout you had on the disk(s) previously, > and what options you chose during install. It's impossible to > know what happened. > > well the layout was something like this: > > p1 ->10gb -> s

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread cornel panceac
btw, thank you adam for voting against discarding this bug as a blocker. i'd say that *knowing* that an operating system will destroy existing data on certain conditions and still declaring it Alpha GOLD, it's far from reasonable expectations. my understanding is that, when we say that an OS *may*

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread cornel panceac
2012/9/15 Ed Greshko > On 09/15/2012 02:27 PM, cornel panceac wrote: > > i do not really understand why are you sayng that. i mean, since we > already do not know if we are installing grub to the right drive, what's > worst in doing it two times in a row? (or three, etc) > > Because there may be

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/15/2012 02:27 PM, cornel panceac wrote: > i do not really understand why are you sayng that. i mean, since we already > do not know if we are installing grub to the right drive, what's worst in > doing it two times in a row? (or three, etc) Because there may be people such as myself in ex

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-14 Thread cornel panceac
2012/9/15 Adam Williamson > On 2012-09-14 22:29, cornel panceac wrote: > >> being tired of the dracut selinux infinite loop, i've decided this >> morning to reinstall f18 from f18 x86 netinst disc. all attempts to >> boot with standard options failed with a kernel crash (maybe my video >> card is

Re: lethal adventures in f18 alpha

2012-09-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-09-14 22:29, cornel panceac wrote: being tired of the dracut selinux infinite loop, i've decided this morning to reinstall f18 from f18 x86 netinst disc. all attempts to boot with standard options failed with a kernel crash (maybe my video card is broken). i eventually managed to reach an