| Summary: | boot fails after install to external drive (OpenFirmware Apple Macintosh PowerPC) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Reiser <jreiser> | ||||||||||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Will Woods <wwoods> | ||||||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, dreptoer, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, pknirsch, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||||||
| Hardware: | powerpc | ||||||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 18:12:22 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||||||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||||||||
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Description
John Reiser
2012-04-18 00:00:44 UTC
Created attachment 578189 [details]
/var/log/anaconda/anaconda.log of newly-installed system
Created attachment 578190 [details]
anaconda.program.log of newly-installed system
Created attachment 578191 [details]
anaconda.storage.log
Created attachment 578192 [details]
anaconda.syslog
Created attachment 578193 [details]
/etc/yaboot.conf as newly installed
Created attachment 578194 [details]
previous /etc/yaboot.conf [fc12]
This problem also happened to me...im running on an ibook g4 late 2005 model. this is how i got it to work for me, this may or may not work with your computer. possible workaround/solution. at the first screen where it says "Welcome to Fedora..." and you can pick "l-fedora" "c-cdrom" "o-Openfirmware" i entered "o" then i typed in boot hd:2,yaboot and there you go, it booted, but since i did it with the netinstall i didnt have a any graphics just a black screen with the name of the Fedora version and a "Login" so i typed root for the login and the root password that was setup during the installation. example Login root password ******** then i had root access so i did as follows # cd /dev I checked to see if my partitions were hda1,hda2,hda3...etc OR if they were sda1,sda2,sda3...etc mine were hda so i then did this # cd /etc then checked if i had yaboot.conf i did so i then viewed and edit it like so # vi yaboot.conf also i noticed the top line on the yaboot.conf said boot=/dev/sda2 so then I pressed "i" to edit the .conf and changed the "sda2 to hda2" then pressed "esc". after that i held "shift" and pressed "z" twice to save the changes. then i ran ybin # ybin then i turned off my computer and started it up again, this time it was able to boot and took me to the "Login" it was black again cuz i dont have a Desktop environment. Then i logged in as before with root and tried to install "Gnome Desktop Environment" using "yum groupinstall" but then i ran into another problem the repos are messed up and it wont download anything..but at least now it boots. for those with the DVD install idk if the same will happen. maybe you will be able to boot and continue your installation...if so and you are able to login and have a desktop environment i suggest you run to the terminal and edit that yaboot.conf and switch sda2 to hda2 or maybe for you its the other way around...let me know you have questions on this or if this worked for anyone. currently i still cant boot 16 or 17 so im running on 12 but im doing my best to find a solution and get 17 on there or 16 at least. also this was only tested on the ibook g4 since its the only ppc i have...and i dont know how it will play out on the ibm or g3 or mac mini... Please fix it, or state some reason for "WONT FIX". This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '17'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 17 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |