Re: F19 did not install boot loader

[Vinny Onelli]

> On 07.11.2013 18:44, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I installed F19 on my HP envy dv7 notebook with windows 8, the pc has
> > 1GB HD and 12 GB of memory, on reboot windows 8 came up but no sign of
> > F19. Is there way to install the boot loader without me try to reinstall
> > again? Should F19 work with win 8?
> > Thank you.
>
> Boot from Live CD and see what happened. Here [1] you'll find
> instructions about installing GRUB manually.
>
> [1]
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/s1-gru...

Thank you for the quick answer
I used the rescue disk, then entered:

1. chroot /mnt/sysimage
2. grub2-install /dev/hda
this line appeared "cannot create directory /boot/efi/EFI/fedora:
input/output error

F19 did not install boot loader

[Greg Woods]

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 11:20 -0500, Vincent Onelli wrote:
> grub2-install /dev/hda

I think it's been quite a while since Fedora used /dev/hd* for hard disk
names. You probably need /dev/sda instead.

--Greg