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Dual boot Fedora 8 and FreeBSD Release 7
I am using a PC with two hard drives. First HD set as Master on first Primary IDE controller is 120GB. Second HD is set as SLAVE on first Primary IDE controller. Booting using the FreeBSD boot installation CD, I began a Standard installation. On the first drive (ad0), I created (allocated) a 100MB slice for a Linux partition (used Type 131). This will be used for my boot loader for Fedora. I created another slice for the remaining space (117,139MB Type ID 165) to be allocated for FreeBSD. Within this I created the /root, /swap, /home, etc. I installed a standard MBR (no boot loader). FreeBSD installed without any issues. I rebooted PC and booted from my Fedora 7 DVD and proceeded to install Fedora 7. I edited the 100MB section I created earlier with FreeBSD and made that my /boot partition for Fedora 7. I then created a Physical Volume on my second hard drive using all the space on that drive. I then created a LV and inside this I created a swap file and all the remaining space was used for /(root). I then selected to install GRUB on the MBR. I also added FreeBSD for GRUB because it was not detected. From here I proceeded to install Fedora 7. Fedora installed without a problem. When I reboot I can use GRUB to boot Fedora 7 or FreeBSD. However if I attempt the same thing with Fedora 8, I cannot get Fedora 8 to go beyond the point where it says...“Reading Physcial Volumes….found logical volumes..etc etc.” Here it locks up and goes no further. I attempted this twice and with the same setup, Fedora 7 works but Fedora 8 won’t.
A few facts:
The Fedora 7 DVD media is TDK DVD+R burned using Nero 7. Same as the Fedora 8 DVD.
Media does not seem to be a factor. Possible my DVD drive is going bad? Am I right in the sense that Fedora 7 doesn’t “know” about UFS format so doesn’t care whereas Fedora 8 does know about it hence my problem?
So am I doing something wrong or is there a hardware issue somewhere or is there a bug with Fedora 8? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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