On 10-Sep-2004 John Rowan wrote: > I have a beautifully working dual boot RH 9 / Windows Millenium Edition > with GRUB managing which booted. Having installed FC2 on a Compaq > Proliant 6500 with new hard drives I figured I'd try upgrading my Dell > Dimensions 866 from RH 9 / WindowsMe to FC2/WindowsMe. I booted from > disc 1 which passed checks and MD5SUM on the ISO images. It reported > that the partition geometry was set incorrectly by another program but I > could ignore and fix later. 30 minutes into the install the machine > rebooted back to the initial welcome / check CD prior to install. I > started the install again, opting this time to format the partion as > there was nothing on the Linux side I needed (a test machine). The > install proceeded on through asking for disc 2 then 3. Ten minutes into > disc 3 the machine rebooted leaving me without a boot loader. I tried > installing again choosing to upgrade the FC2 install. It asked for disc > 3, then said nothing was changed and the boot loader would not be > upgraded. I rebooted and just a grub> prompt. It's too late to start a > multi CD install now. I don't want to loose the Me partition as it has > my Novell client, Arcserve and lots of other stuff I need. I guess I'll > have to reinstall RH 9? > > -- > John Rowan > Rownetco, Inc. > Office: 973 697 8019 > Fax: 973 697 4443 > Cell: 973 229 5742 > E-Mail: rowan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Web: http://www.rownetco.com > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Hi, John, this is a known problem which can be solved without WinME re-installation. PLease have a look at http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html Regards Joachim Backes -- Joachim Backes <backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center, High Performance Computing Department, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html
