"Geoffrey Leach wrote:" > > On 06/27/2009 08:43:29 PM, David Highley wrote: > > After my 5 year old Tyan dual Opteron motherboard died in the middle > > of > > installing Fedora 11 the saga continues. > > > > Upgraded to an EVGA X58 Socket 1366 core i7 board, 965 Nehalem CPU, > > EVGA > > Nvidia 285 GTX 2G video card, and 2 Raptor 300 GB system disks > > mirrored > > in a 3Ware 9500S-8 raid controller. Tried creating a live Fedora > > thumb > > drive from Fedora 10 but liveusb-creator has a bug and has not been > > updated. Bought a usb DVD burner, all the burners were on the box in > > the process of being up graded. Burned a disc, tested bad. Booted > > from > > disc and did a network install off my web server. Install completed, > > did > > the reboot and now the system will not come up. > > > > Tried rebooting off the DVD disc to see if I could do a rescue, but > > it > > does not boot now. > > Couple of things occur to me. > > First, when you say your box does not boot do you mean that it does not > recognize the disk as bootable? In that case, I'd be inclined to get > myself a commercially-produced F11 disk. (CheapBytes.com, for example) Created another DVD at a slower speed which passes the test. > > Or that it does not POST? In that case .... :-( > > Second, as you have an Nvidia card, you will probably have to boot with > the vesa option -- its one of the choices on the boot menu, and then > install the driver later on. After the raid controller verifies the DMI pool it stops, ie. I do not see the grub menus. I booted into rescue mode and the file systems appears to be good. I did a complete reinstall again and have the same results. > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Regards, David Highley Highley Recommended, Inc. Phone: (206) 669-0081 2927 SW 339th Street WEB: http://www.highley-recommended.com Federal Way, WA 98023-7732 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
