Fedora wont install for me...

Silpheed2K · #1 8th September 2010, 09:41 AM

It's horrible... especially since I feel so at home in this community...
for some reason grub just wont work for me... I even resorted to trying a proprietary bootloader and that didn't work out so far.
honestly I dedicated half of my hard drive to windows and the other half to GNU/Linux.
This is... well... not good... apparently I'm leaning towards the fact that it's a bug with grub that's been stomped out in grub2. I tried to install lilo but that didn't even work cause there's no yum in my fedora partition...
so... I guess I'll just vent a little here and find something I can do with my little computer..

sonoran · #2 8th September 2010, 10:40 AM

I'm sure grub has bugs, the documentation might qualify, but I don't think I've ever seen any insurmountable problems with it. There always seems to be a way to get it to do what you need. What is the issue, exactly? Or, even approximately.

Silpheed2K · #3 8th September 2010, 11:39 AM

grub wont finish installation at all.. I've tried many manual console commands and installation methods but none of them work. I even tried messing around with the partitions and creating them with different specs. It just wont stop saying "/boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly."

Silpheed2K · #4 9th September 2010, 10:02 AM

LETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEE!!!!!!

but seriously now though... should I stick with 32bit or use 64bit?

sonoran · #5 10th September 2010, 12:15 AM

Start a thread in the Installation forum, post your hardware specs, your grub.conf file, and the output of fdisk -l, and the grub error message, and maybe someone will spot something. The more eyes looking at the problem, the better chance for a solution.

Grub2 is available in the fedora repos. I haven't tried it, but maybe if you selected it during installation, it would work.

Can you boot a LiveCD? That would be a way to install grub2. Or, the Super Grub Disk:
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

Definitely 64 bit.

Silpheed2K · #6 10th September 2010, 12:27 AM

If you didn't pick up on my last post.. I fixed it and got it too install. I like the results.

sonoran · #7 10th September 2010, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Silpheed2K

If you didn't pick up on my last post.. I fixed it and got it too install. I like the results.

Good work! There's always a way.

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LETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEE!!!!!!

That was just too subtle for me.