recover from a bad F16 install

[William Hooper]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I now have a machine that is "a brick". There is no operating system on it
> as that got destroyed and any attempts to do a fresh install come back with
> "No usable disks have been found" and I can't make any progress. Nothing
> could be done in the troubleshoot options except get a dmesg, which I have
> attached to this email.

I don't believe anyone has suggested it, but are your sure your hard
drive is still functioning?  The file you attached doesn't detect any
hard disks, just two optical drives:

[    2.245311] ata2.00: ATAPI: ATAPI   DVD A  DH20A4H, QP53, max UDMA/66
[    2.245321] ata2.01: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B, 1.03, max MWDMA2
[    2.245327] ata2.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
[    2.267187] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[    2.289186] ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2
[    2.292540] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            ATAPI    DVD A  DH20A4H
  QP53 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.295848] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 47x/125x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[    2.295853] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    2.296064] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    2.296192] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[    2.297320] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST CD-ROM
GCR-8480B 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.300388] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    2.300567] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[    2.300695] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5


-- 
William Hooper