Another Fedora 18 Alpha story

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

2012-09-17 17:40 keltezéssel, Bruno Wolff III írta:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:38:33 -0400,
>   Timothy Davis <cpuobsessed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My system is an older Athlon FX-60 on a socket 939 nforce4 motherboard
>> with two SATA drives and one IDE hard drive
>> I wanted to install F18 on the IDE drive (140Gb WD) and went through
>> the steps and selected a number of packages to install
>> It appeared to installed just fine but when I went to boot into F18 it
>> didn't exist! I booted into my F17 install and checked the disk
>> with palimpset and it didn't find any partitions. I selected the
>> automatic partitioning and made sure that there were no partitions on
>> the disk when I started.
>
> Is the IDE drive your boot device?
>
> My first guess would be that it's booting off one of the sata drives, whose bootloader 
> doesn't know about f18 on the IDE drive.

"No partitions" would be a hint of a GPT partitioning scheme.
For Fedora 16, the "nogpt" boot option to Anaconda existed
and it made the installer use MSDOS partitioning instead.
A lot of mainboards cannot boot off a GPT partition.