Installing Fedora - boot loader

[Kenneth Lee]

Thanks for the encouragement.  I know I will eventually succeed, if I have
to install a hundred times!  I'm on my third time now.  I'm still not sure
how to do the "initrd", but I'll keep googling around and find the right
howto.

Regards, Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of David Bruzos
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 7:15 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Installing Fedora - boot loader


Hello Ken:
Yes, you need a boot loader!  If you don't install grub there will be no 
boot info in the master boot record of the hard disc and your BIOS will not 
see the operating system.  So, when you get to the boot loader screen, 
select grub and put it to the MBR (master boot record).
If you do that, you should be able to boot after you restart...
About your other problem I am not sure.  I have not installed Fedora in a 
while and I don't remember having any problems like yours.
Don't get discouraged however, Linux is a wonderful thing and the community 
around it is even more wonderful.  After a year you will be amazed of the 
things you can do with your Linux machine.  It was hard at first for me, but

once I understood what was going on, everything got easier and easier...

David B.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Lee" <klee15 at cox.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 6:25 PM
Subject: Installing Fedora - boot loader


Hello all,  I've been trying all weekend to get Phedora installed.  This is
my first time to install any kind of Linux and well... It's not going well.

I've been reading the howto's I found on linux-speakup.org but the
description in the howto do not match with the screens I'm getting.

The howto says nothing about what to do for the "boot load manager" (do I
need the grub loader?) and at one point near the end, the howto says to
press Alt+F2 and you'll get a "#" prompt.  But I only get a /blahblah
something prompt and it will not accept any commands.

The last message from the install says it is safe to reboot, but when I did
I just get the message "no operating system found".

FYI, I'm trying to put this on a Dell GX1 500Mhz PC with 128MB ram and 12GB
HD.  I downloaded the 4 images from the linux-speakup page and varified they
are good.  I did the automatic partition because linux will be the only os
on this system.  The synthesizer is a DecTalk express.

Thanks for any help.

Ken


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