[Help] Fedora 12 boot problems

[tonywolfe121]

Hi whenever I boot into my fedora 12 hard drive on my external hard drive instead it shows a grub command line. Any input is welcomed and if you need more info just ask.

[yancek]

Do you have your external drive set ahead of the internal in BIOS?
Are you selecting the drive during boot?
Is Fedora the only OS on the external?
What is on the internal drive?
Where did you install bootloader for Fedora? external root partition? external master boot?
Do you have a Linux CD or your Fedora CD? You can load that and open a terminal, log in as root user and run command: fdisk -l (lower case Letter L) to post your partition information.

[tonywolfe121]

Do you have your external drive set ahead of the internal in BIOS? Yes
Are you selecting the drive during boot? Yes
Is Fedora the only OS on the external? Yes
What is on the internal drive? Windows Vista Home Plus 32 bit
Where did you install bootloader for Fedora? external root partition? external master boot? I don't quite remember
Do you have a Linux CD or your Fedora CD? You can load that and open a terminal, log in as root user and run command: fdisk -l (lower case Letter L) to post your partition information. Sure I still got my dvd I will write down the command and get you the info.

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[tonywolfe121]

Well the image kinda sucks but I hope you can get something useful out of it.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/...5af8d231_b.jpg

If there is a way I can get the info using vista or save to my usb drive mind telling me?

[kurtdriver]

Well the image kinda sucks but I hope you can get something useful out of it.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/...5af8d231_b.jpg

If there is a way I can get the info using vista or save to my usb drive mind telling me?

Rather than shooting a picture, and putting it up on your flickr, can you copy and paste it into a window on this thread?

[tonywolfe121]

Not that I know of. Unless there is a way of saving that as a log onto a usbkey?

[kurtdriver]

This is what I was thinking of. A photo for that purpose is quite novel.


[kurt@Jupiter ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for kurt:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfd89fd89

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 1045 8193150 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 1046 38913 304174710 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
145 heads, 48 sectors/track, 1125 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 6960 * 512 = 3563520 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1125 3914976 83 Linux

[tonywolfe121]

Well I am on my install cd and It seems like I don't have mouse support. But again if im doing it wrong mind pointing me in the right direction?

[devils casper]

When you unplug External Disk, does Vista boot up fine?

[tonywolfe121]

Yep it boots up just fine. (thats what im on now)