Description of problem: Boot from a usb key and perform network install Install Fedora 7 reboot fails as which boot sector out of range Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Tried twice on two different Dell systems same result Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tell anaconda to ignore the loopback file system on the usb key (twice! why?) 2. Un-check the sdb drive in the disk target selection page 3. Specifically select the internal disk as the desired boot disk (usb key still listed as default even though it's been unchecked why?) 4. Install 5. Reboot Actual results: reboot fails with boot sector out of range Expected results: Fedora niceness Additional info: booting from the USB key now boots the system properly. device map lists (hd1) /dev/sda (hd0) /dev/sdb grub.conf references (hd1,0) for the boot partition. I suspect that this drive ordering is being changed by the BIOS so that the internal drive is only hd1 when booting from the usb thumbdrive. changing the hd1 to hd0 in device.map and grub.conf and running grub-install /dev/sda fixes the issue.
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