On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 12:25 -0700, don fisher wrote:
> 3. Why do they force a boot partition? As far as I know using /boot
> has worked since Fedora2.
Because the boot process can only start from certain filing systems,
it's more restricted than other things. But the system, once booted,
can make
On 02/10/12 16:25, linux guy wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
All in all, the upgrade to F16 was by far the most difficult Fedora
upgrade I have ever done.
I agree ! F15 and F16 were terrible upgrades for me.
However, if you used the Install DVD, it goes very smooth
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> All in all, the upgrade to F16 was by far the most difficult Fedora
> upgrade I have ever done.
I agree ! F15 and F16 were terrible upgrades for me.
However, if you used the Install DVD, it goes very smoothly.
Because of the last 2 upgrades,
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 18:57 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> This last part seems not to be true. Someone else pointed out that there
> is a way to force grub2 to install on a disk with only 63 free blocks at
> the beginning
Which brings up another related question. Is it possible to install
grub2 into
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:36 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> Almost all (all?) users of preupgrade are using grub1.
>
> As I understand it, most (all?) grub1 systems have the first partition
> starting at 63.
>
> Any system with a first partition starting at 63 will be bricked if it
> runs preupgrad
Am 08.02.2012 19:36, schrieb sean darcy:
> On 02/08/2012 12:48 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> Greg Woods wrote:
>>> This is the area at the beginning of the disk, before the first
>>> partition. Grub2 needs the first partition to start at 2048, but default
>>> partition layouts from Grub-1 sys
On 02/08/2012 12:48 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Greg Woods wrote:
This is the area at the beginning of the disk, before the first
partition. Grub2 needs the first partition to start at 2048, but default
partition layouts from Grub-1 systems start at 63. I have run into this
several times and
Greg Woods wrote:
This is the area at the beginning of the disk, before the first
partition. Grub2 needs the first partition to start at 2048, but default
partition layouts from Grub-1 systems start at 63. I have run into this
several times and it is a royal pain. There may be some games you can
On 02/07/12 22:05, linux guy wrote:
I got around all this mess by upgrading from the full install DVD. I
found the problem to exist only when updating from the live CDs or pre
upgrading. If I did my upgrade from the full install DVD, everything
worked out OK.
If you need more information, I c
I got around all this mess by upgrading from the full install DVD. I
found the problem to exist only when updating from the live CDs or pre
upgrading. If I did my upgrade from the full install DVD, everything
worked out OK.
If you need more information, I could go back and look at my notes.
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On 02/05/12 22:31, sean darcy wrote:
preupgrade failed for some reason to install the grub2 bootloader.
/boot/grub2 exists.
I made an F16 livecd. edited /boot/grub/grub.conf:
default=0
timeout=2
title 3.2.2
kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
root=UUID=017cd53d-21ae-43b5-b8ce-b23b15092273 ro rd
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 18:23:55 -0500,
sean darcy wrote:
>
> Can I just stay with grub1? I really don't want to mess with
> gparted wizardry on my boot partition. Unless there are some really
> clear instructions on how to move the beginning address. As I
> remember, you shrink by moving the
I went through the same thing back in early January. My sympathies.
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On 02/06/2012 08:49 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg
/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small.
core.img won't fit in it..
/sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
ins
On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:49:19 -0700
Greg Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
>
> > grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg
> > /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small.
> > core.img won't fit in it..
> > /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not
Am 07.02.2012 02:49, schrieb Greg Woods:
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
>
>> grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg
>> /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small.
>> core.img won't fit in it..
>> /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:48 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sdg
> /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually small.
> core.img won't fit in it..
> /sbin/grub2-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be
> installed in this setup by using blo
On 02/06/2012 05:10 PM, sean darcy wrote:
On 02/06/2012 12:31 AM, sean darcy wrote:
preupgrade failed for some reason to install the grub2 bootloader.
/boot/grub2 exists.
I made an F16 livecd. edited /boot/grub/grub.conf:
default=0
timeout=2
title 3.2.2
kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
root
On 02/06/2012 12:31 AM, sean darcy wrote:
preupgrade failed for some reason to install the grub2 bootloader.
/boot/grub2 exists.
I made an F16 livecd. edited /boot/grub/grub.conf:
default=0
timeout=2
title 3.2.2
kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
root=UUID=017cd53d-21ae-43b5-b8ce-b23b15092273
preupgrade failed for some reason to install the grub2 bootloader.
/boot/grub2 exists.
I made an F16 livecd. edited /boot/grub/grub.conf:
default=0
timeout=2
title 3.2.2
kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64
root=UUID=017cd53d-21ae-43b5-b8ce-b23b15092273 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0
rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE
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