fedora 17 hates me

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Steve Dowe wrote:

> On 11/06/12 05:11, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > 40.0GB Seagate Ultra ATA 5400 rmp
> (snip)
> > There is also a 400GB internal disk drive added post-purchase.
> > It is now the boot disk.
>
> How much RAM? <1GB?  Please see:

4GB

> It kinda sounds like a lack of memory, a corrupt install, corrupt disk 
> or any combination thereof.
>
> It would seem the easiest route is to reinstall, ensuring your system 
> meets the minimum requirements (if it doesn't already).

Installing has never been an easy route for me.
Before I do it yet again, I'd like some evidence that
the problem is something that reinstalling might fix.
For all I know, Fedora 17 might like my motherboard
only slightly better than Fedora 16 did.

Eventually I discovered the reason for my Fedora 14 problem:
The Fedora 17 installer found one Fedora 14 partition,
but not the one I wanted.
As I did not trust myself to edit a grub2 grub.cfg file,
I changed the boot drive in the BIOS and tried to go from there.
That was the point at which I discovered that the
Fedora 17 installer had put grub2 in both MBRs.
Fortunately I had a Fedora 13 live disk available.
I used it to install an old grub and went from there.
At present, Fedora 14 is my only working Linux system.

-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily