Hi Ian,
I did a fedup from F17 to F18 on my work desktop. Now I get an infinite boot loop. Fdisk can't look at the partition table of /dev/sda because it has been coverted to GPT format (who did that?).
Ian Chapman packages@amiga-hardware.com writes:
When dealing with GPT partition tables, parted is probably the tool you want use as fdisk doesn't understand them. .... What does the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" show? I would expect it to look something like
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 625142447 312571223+ ee GPT
Thanks for the comments, Ian. I checked with parted and have the same disk setup as you. I also can see my old partitions using the "parted /dev/sda print" command.
I guess my grub setup got hosed somehow, and the GPT conversion is a red-herring.
I'm downloading an F18 live image to try a rescue on the boot setup. An f17 image was unable to cope with the GPT conversion. After saying that it identified and mounted the old root partition (but "may have had some problems"), the mount point was null. Maybe F18 can fix itself.
-- Rick Walker
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Rick Walker walker@omnisterra.com wrote:
Hi Ian,
I did a fedup from F17 to F18 on my work desktop. Now I get an infinite boot loop. Fdisk can't look at the partition table of /dev/sda because it has been coverted to GPT format (who did that?).
Ian Chapman packages@amiga-hardware.com writes:
When dealing with GPT partition tables, parted is probably the tool you want use as fdisk doesn't understand them. .... What does the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" show? I would expect it to look something like
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 625142447 312571223+ ee GPT
Thanks for the comments, Ian. I checked with parted and have the same disk setup as you. I also can see my old partitions using the "parted /dev/sda print" command.
I guess my grub setup got hosed somehow, and the GPT conversion is a red-herring.
I'm downloading an F18 live image to try a rescue on the boot setup. An f17 image was unable to cope with the GPT conversion. After saying that it identified and mounted the old root partition (but "may have had some problems"), the mount point was null. Maybe F18 can fix itself.
-- Rick Walker
Didn't parted have an X component once upon a time? Although I have used Linux for a very long time and am quite used to text environments, I love the visual (read lazy) based environments when / if available, considering I agree that text offers an incredible plethora of options over the GUI.