[ILUG] Grub - Fedora Macbook

[Conor Mac Aoidh]

Hi,

I didn't change anything and just booted into my fedora 12 installation
today, with the f11 live disc in and it brought up the post-install
configration. Now my installation is booting fine.. not quite sure what
happened there but at least it's working now!

Thanks
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Conor

http://conormacaoidh.com


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Ciaran Power <ciaran.power at gmail.com>wrote:

> Conor,
>
> I don't know anything about MacBooks, but that grub configuration sounds
> wrong to me. The root device for your Fedora install should be (hd0,2) [not
> (hd0,3)] - grub counts from 0. Grub's 'root' is the boot partition, AFAIK
> (leave the kernel root=whatever line alone). I'm surprised that the Fedora
> installer would set it up incorrectly though.
>
> Thanks,
> Ciaran
>
>
>
> Conor Mac Aoidh wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having a bit of a problem with my Fedora 12 installation on my new
>> macbook pro. I have installed twice. First I followed the instructions on
>> manual partition layout here:
>>
>> http://www.cenolan.com/2009/06/installing-fedora-11-on-a-macbook/
>>
>> That installation wouldn't boot post-install. The second time I used the
>> default fedora partitioning settings. I got the exact same error as the
>> first attempt which is something along the lines of: "No boot medium
>> found,
>> please insert a bootable disk".
>>
>> I installed rEFIt before I attempted to install anything. After both
>> installs rEFIt recognised the fedora installation, but it still would not
>> boot.
>>  My partition layout is as follows:
>>
>> /dev/sda1 // rEFIt
>> /dev/sda2 // 20 GB HFS+
>> /dev/sda3 // /boot ext4
>> /dev/sda4 // / ext4 460GB
>> /dev/sda5 // linux swap 5 GB
>>
>> there is also 20GB free space somehwhere which I intend to install Windows
>> on, I need a program called Solid Works for my Leaving Cert.
>>
>> I opened the grub.conf file with a live disk and it appears that all is
>> ok.
>> It points towards root(hd0,3) which looks alright to me.
>>
>> Can anyone see any solution to my problems?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>