On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:31:48 -0400
Michael B Allen <ioplex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just tried to install F24 and everything went smoothly but after
reboot I just get "No bootable devices found".
I've been using Linux as my primary machine since kernel 2.0.35 and my
instinct tells me this looks like the bootloader wasn't installed
correctly.
Is this a known problem?
Not usually.
When I "reclaimed" space my drive looked something like the following:
sda1 Dell Utiility
sda2 Windows Recovery
sda3 Windows OS
So I deleted Windows and reclaimed but I want to leave the Dell
utility and Windows recovery partition.
This all looks fine. How large is sda3, and how far from the start of
the disk. If using bios boot, the boot partition has restrictions on
its location.
So how do I install the bootloader in F24 so that it boots sda3?
Is grub still being used?
It's now grub2.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2
I think if this is a recent version of windows that you will need to
use UEFI to boot, though I'm not very familiar with it.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/html/Multiboot_Guide/BOOT-...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html-single/UEFI_Secure_Bo...
If you are using a bios boot, you need to install the grub2 bootloader
on the disk for the bios to find. I think the command is
grub2-install /dev/sda
in your case. You would have to boot a rescue image somehow to do
that. But, the fedora installer, anaconda, should have taken care of
all of this. How did you install?