On Wed November 29 2006 3:21 pm, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Also, when moving through the installation process it didn't > seem that Fedora recognized my Debian system when it came time > to configure Grub. I accepted the default configuration for > Grub, because I couldn't find a way to add the Debian as one > of the bootloader options. > You can't add your Debian OS during Fedora's installation. You'll have to edit grub.conf after you're up to include the Debian in the options - a source of many recent complaints I've come upon in Fedora reviews. It's pretty easy to add your other Linux to the grub.conf file - do a google on it for plenty of info > However, it appears that Grub didn't overwrite my MBR entries > for Debian, becuase after I bailed on the Fedora install Grub > loaded Debian with no problems. Did I miss something during > the install, or should Fedora have notified me that it saw > Debian when it was configuring Grub? > Fedora installs write the grub to the MBR near the very end of the whole process - you never got that far > I'm not at trying to complain in any way. I'm just want to > learn what I can about Fedora, and provide some positive > feedback. :] A problem I had with one of my installs is that it kept reporting it couldn't read such and such a file on the DVD - it offered a 'retry' option, and that always got me past that, though it sometimes took several tries. I hope that the Fedora team really focusses on fixing all these installation issues for FC7 - it's a big negative for an otherwise great distro - whether it's read failures, broken media checks, grub not being written to the MBR, etc... The process is more like gambling... Other distros don't seem to have as big a cluster of problems at install phase, so my guess is it's just something waiting to be addressed. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, Md, USA
