On Saturday 15 December 2007, Craig White wrote: >On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 00:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 14 December 2007, Craig White wrote: >> >On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> Greetings all; >> >> >> >> I just tried to install F8 on a fresh 400GB sata disk, on an offboard >> >> controller. I configured it so as not to touch the existing drives >> >> with FC6 installed on them so that I had some continuity and could back >> >> up to Fc6 as I am now. >> >> >> >> Everything was marching along at a good rate, with basically an >> >> everything install, 1266 packages IIRC. >> >> >> >> At the 805th package it bailed out. The package was: >> >> >> >> xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-2.fc8.i386.rpm >> >> >> >> It either could not be opened or was missing. The media did pass >> >> checksum, and the network was alive & well, the install getting much of >> >> its info from there according to the traffic on my router. >> >> >> >> Next? >> > >> >---- >> >Personally, I'd start over. >> > >> >you probably could do a reboot with all the same install parameters and >> >it would probably continue on from where it left off, you could probably >> >do a linux rescue boot, chroot, manually finish (at least 'yum >> >groupupdate Base') and run grub-install but I would want a new/clean >> >install to start with disrepair. >> > >> >Craig >> >> I just found a newer bios for my now elderly Biostar M7NCD Pro mobo, and >> will put that in first & then try it tomorrow when the old fart is a >> little fresher. Hopefully that will make an offboard /boot partition >> possible. > >---- >where the /boot partition is located should be of little consequence >because the bootloader code needs to be on the first drive's mbr and >grub can locate a /boot partition in any drive at that point. > >Craig Even if its sata on an accessory card the bios can't see? The F8 installer did call it sda though. Call me puzzled for the time being, with a error of -ENOTENOUGHCOFFEE, I was 5:30 am getting the FC6 back to bootable due to the 400mhz FSB default of the newer bios. Trashed everything. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
