FC13 install won't do post-install boot
Hi All-
I have a desktop machine with 3 SATA drives. I have a separate OS on
each drive and use the graphical boot manager GAG
(gag.sourceforge.net) to boot into each of the 3 OS's. I had Fedora
11 installed on the second drive (sdb). Rather than try an update, I
did a clean install of FC13 from DVD in which I re-formatted my /
directory (sdb1) and left my separate /home partition unformatted.
Due to using GAG, I specified that the boot loader should be installed
on sdb1 (rather than sdb). This is how I've done it in the past and
done with the other distros I have installed on sda and sdc. However,
once the install finishes, the media is ejected, and I'm asked to
reboot, choosing to boot from sdb1 via GAG produced a hang
(essentially a black screen with a single _ or - in the upper left
hand corner of the screen.
I thought maybe I had to specify a dedicated /boot partition of at
least 512MB, so I performed the install again, this time specifying
sdb1 as /boot and sdb2 as / and to install the boot loader to sdb1
with sdb2 defaulting to the Fedora install. Same result.
The install media is verified as good. I next grabbed the FC13 Live
CD and performed an 'Install to Hard Disk' from that again specifying
that the boot loader be installed to sdb1 (/boot). This time, when
selecting to boot Fedora 13 after the initial installation reboot, the
screen is black and then the computer start the POST and reboots to
GAG (no hang like before, just an apparent failed boot and quickly
reboots the machine). No error messages seen in either case.
Any ideas on what may be going on here?
Thanks!