From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071030 Fedora/2.0.0.8-2.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.8 Description of problem: Given an IDE drive (used to be /dev/hda now shows up as /dev/sdb) and a SATA drive (/dev/sda) The idea is to have the IDE drive be ( / /boot & swap )and the sata drive be /home Do custom partitioning as laid out above. Installer seems to progress fine. Upon reboot, Grub cannot find partition I thing the installer is confused and thing it should be booting /dev/sda Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.3.0.50-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install OS to IDE drive 2. reboot 3. system hangs at grub prompt Actual Results: hands at boot prompt Expected Results: Should boot Linux Additional info: F8 RC3 Filesystem volume name: /12 I tried this three times before I successfully installed to the IDE drive with the sata drive removed. I tried editing to boot line in grub to manually point to /dev/sdb2 instead of root=LABEL=/12 I tried resetting the disk labels with tune2fs -L I tried the "advanced options" in the installer, specifying that the boot loader be installed to the fist block of the super block (or what ever they call it) The BIOS has no problem knowing what disk it's supposed to boot.
I also tried manually deleting all of the partitions so the disks would be free of partitions that might be confusing the installer.
The final release version of Fedora 8 has a "Which drive do you want to boot from" selector. I do not recall this option when installing from the live CD, though I am using a different disk set up (two sata versus one sata and one ata). If the option was there and I missed it, my bad.
Have you been able to reproduce this error in either F8 or F9?