Fedora Core 12 Not Booting

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On 10-09-08 09:46 PM, Lance F. Squire wrote:
> Howard Gibson wrote:
>>     I have just installed Fedora Core 12 on my desktop, and it is not
>> booting.
>> ... I have an old IDE drive as a backup, and a 500GB SATA drive as my
>> primary.  I am using the SATA drive, partition /dev/sdb1 for booting.
>>
>>     Does this look familiar to anyone?
>>
> 
> Sadly, Yes...
> 
> The last few times I tried to install Fedora with my old IDE drive and a
> SATA drive installed, I found that the drive labels where scrambled on
> the resulting install even though the Installer worked perfectly otherwise.
> 
> The only solutions I found where:
> 
> 1. Manually re-edit the drive info files so they where correct.
> 
> 2. Install the OS on the SATA while the IDE was disconnected, then
> reconnect IDE after the OS is known working and assign the drive.
> 
> I'm now working with option 3. Get a bigger SATA and don't worry about
> the IDE anymore. :P
> 
> Lance F. Squire

I can't think of the magical incantation right now, but I suspect it's
just a matter of reinstalling grub on the MBR. From the rescue disk.

The second post in this thread seems to be right:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-235.html

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