[Test-Announce] Fedora 16 Beta Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 12:23 -0400, Andy Lawrence wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 00:22 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
>         
>         > Ideally, all Alpha and Beta priority test cases for
>         Installation [2],
>         > Base [3], Desktop [4], and Security Lab [5] should pass in
>         order to meet
>         > the Beta Release Criteria [6]. Help is available on
>         #fedora-qa on
>         > irc.freenode.net [7], or on the test list [8].
>         
>         
>         Just a time frame here: the Go/No-Go is on Wednesday 09-28, so
>         if
>         everyone could try and help get all the tests done by then,
>         that would
>         be great.
>         
>         Thanks, all.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried every possible option, after installation my Thinkpad
> T520 will not find anything bootable.  I've attempted with only legacy
> boot in the BIOS and only UEFI.  
> 
> 
> I've tried with the normal lvm standards, custom, etc.  My boot device
> is an SSD.  I've also tried to change the bootloader installation
> location from MBR to the 2nd partition with no luck.
> 
> 
> What else can I do?

When you say 'find anything bootable', what do you mean exactly? what
happens on boot? If you do a straight through install with 'use entire
disk' and select your SSD as the target disk, then boot live and have a
look at the partition layout on the SSD, what do you see?

thanks!
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