How many people have unbootable FC5T2?

Reg Clemens reg at dwf.com
Wed Jan 25 03:02:52 UTC 2006


> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:08 +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
> > Just a quick quiz on how many people have a install of fedora that is
> > unbootable? Where does it stop? When did it stop?
> > 
> > Only reason I am asking is I havent had mine working since early test1
> > and am nervous about the release of FC5 as it might not support my
> > laptop. I have used fedora on it since FC3 and have never had any
> > issues but FC5 tests seem to be causing all hell to break loose.
> 
> I have had multiple failures (>4) testing installing/upgrading FC5t2 in
> VMware Workstation on two different hosts.  Zero successes.  Haven't
> tried on real hardware yet.
> 
I have a multiboot system, and wrote the FC5T2 to a new partition. 
The install SHOULD have overwritten the boot block, it didnt, when I booted,
I got the old/other system back.  Had to modify /boot/grub/grub.conf
to get to the new install.

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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com





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