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Old 02-16-2007, 10:32 PM   #1
jmknsd
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fedora stallin on first reboot


It installed smoothly, I logged in and played around, but when I rebooted, the screen went blank, I played with grub(I can't remember what I did) and got it working.
But also, the install had not detected and added windows to GRUB, so I did that, rebooted, couldn't get into linux, but windows boots when I select it.

Im downloading knoppix now to see if I can boot that and make alterations to FC 6 later

Im running amd athlon XP 2800 1 GB of ram
120 GB hard drive (For linux)
80 GB hard drive (windows XP)

nothing different with the hardware, I installed FC6 over slackware 10.
 
Old 02-16-2007, 10:34 PM   #2
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Can you boot Fedora if you change the HD at boot (ie tell the PC to boot off the 120G HD)?
 
Old 02-17-2007, 12:43 AM   #3
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I tried switching to command line grub at boot and typed:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xen.gz-2.6.12-1.2895.fc6
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen ro root=LABLE=/ rhgb quiet
module /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6xen.img

because that is what appeared when I went to edit the grub entry.
but when I tried to change it, the text went all screwey. say, if I delete a letter in the middle of the line, the last character is deleted, and no matter what I type the same(incorrect) text appears.

edit: have grub installed to hda(my 120 GB linux disk) and I chainload to windows.

Last edited by jmknsd; 02-17-2007 at 12:44 AM.
 
  


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