Fedora Installation :: Disk Boot Failure After Fresh Install From Live CD.12?
Feb 15, 2010
I've run the install to hard drive program three times over and each time I get "disk boot failure". I believe I've got Grub to install to the mbr but I am not sure.
System:
Barton 3200+ with 1GB of DDR1
Asus A7V333
High Point hard disk controller
other items
All the hard drives are hooked to the High Point controller. It recognizes all of them that have power hooked up and read/writes to them. Two have 98SE installs, the third is where I'm trying to install Fedora 12 to get away from some problems I'm having with 98SE.
The BIOS is set up to boot from the "SCSI device" which means it's booting from the High Point controller. The High Point lets me set a boot mark, which, when set to the Fedora drive, yields the disk boot failure no matter what I do to it.
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Oct 16, 2010
After buying a new PC, I decided to "reorganize" my former PC as follows:Initially it has been a dual (SATA) disk dual boot PC- one disk for each OS, while XP was fully installed on a single NTFS partition. Using Gparted I shrunk the XP partition, and created some Linux partitions. I've verified that the XP partition (sda1) is bootable. Afterwards, I removed the other (former Linux) disk from the computer. While doing so, I had to temporarily disconnect cables from both drives. Finally, I fresh installed Mint 9 (Ubuntu 10.04 derivative), on my pre-prepared Linux partitions. Installation completed flawlessly, and during the install, I've noticed that GRUB2 has been installed on sda. Rebooted and got "Disk boot failure" error.
I've checked the BIOS and noticed that the (single) drive was not recognized.
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Boot Info Summary:
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Code:
allen@heavy:/etc$ uname -a
Linux heavy 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
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A quick jaunt over to dmesg:
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[ 2950.184072] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
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[ 2950.320178] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
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[ 2950.326192] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
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[ 2950.326513] usb-storage: device found at 6
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[ 2950.326519] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
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[ 2955.324403] usb-storage: device scan complete .....
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insmod ext2
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