[SOLVED] FEdora 17 Bootloader Problem! I want have Fedora but it doesn't want to me!

[DBelton]

That is interesting. I just tried it here on one of my drives and got the same results with gdisk telling me I had an invalid GPT on a drive I know has no GPT. Even get the same thing after telling it to zap the GPT information.

It appears there is a bug in there someplace.

Have you tried installing the booloader now, though. It may just be a bug in how gdisk detects things, and it may actually have cleared out the bad GPT data.

[bakunin]

No. I did not try to install bootloader. But after doing that, Do I have to do resize partition? How can I resize partition for the grub2? And which partition?

[DBelton]

I was just looking back through the thread, and you have sda1 is your boot partition, but it's only 100MB. Fedora recommends 512MB (I have used 1GB ever since F14)

That probably isn't your issue with not being able to install grub2 currently, but if you get a few kernels in there, it's not going to have room for them.

Since sda2 is your LVM (which would need to be shrunk to be able to expand sda1 (boot)), and since it's pretty much a fresh install, and you haven't installed Windows yet. my recommendation would be to re-install Fedora after wiping the drive. When you install Fedora, make sure to allocate a /boot partition large enough, and I would recommend not using LVM and have separate partitions for / and /home as well.

Also, it appears the partition types have gotten changed on yours as well. Your /boot (sda1) is showing as type 0700 and should be 8300 (Linux Filesystem) I forget what the LVM partition should be since it's been so long since I've used LVM.

Edit:

I believe that the partition type being wrong on your /boot partition is what is keeping grub2 from installing correctly. It believe it has to be a type 83 for it to work properly. You can try changing the partition type and see if that fixes your problem. It would be worth trying it before going through and doing a re-install. You can change it by using t from the gdisk main menu.

[bakunin]

But sda1 was created by windows automatically. Now I have windows7 on sda2. sda1 contains boot files for windows. I can't remove there. I don't understand. My sda3 has enough space (700 GB! ) for fedora installation. And grub2 is installed this partition right? and we make this partition bootable than grub menu comes then we select which OS. if we chooise windows machine boots from sda1 if we chooise fedora on menu it boots from / or something. I really don't understand what's going on and what's the problem...

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Using gparted, What if I;
1. MOve /dev/sda2 to the right and shrink it from 252.83 gib to 250.93
2. Grow /dev/sda1 from 100.00 Mib to 2.00 Gib

Then can I install fedora17 with grub2?

[DBelton]

oooh. Ok.

You don't have Fedora on there now?

I was going by what you posted above in post # 5

LVM
/lvm1 /root
/lvm2 /home
/lvm3 swap

/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 /boot 500mb
/dev/sda2 500000 mb lvm
/dev/sda3 500000 mb unlocalated for windows 7

If what you are saying now is how it is, then you may have over-written some of the Fedora partitions with Windows.

If that happened, then all you can do is reinstall Fedora.

Going by what you just said..

sda1 is your Windows system partition
sda2 is your Windows partition

Then you have sda3 which is the remainder of the drive except for sda4 wish is a linux swap partiton right at the end of the drive.

If this is how it is, then you would be better off removing sda3 and sda4...

Make a new sda3 which is 1GB for your linux boot
make a new sda4 which is a extended partition using the remainder of the drive
Now in that extended partition,
create sda5 which is your Fedora root partition, sda6 for your swap, and sda7 for /home

I would give sda5 about 50GB, 4GB for your swap and the remainder for /home

Then install Fedora 17, and at the partitioning screen, choose custom partitioning, and select the existing partitions just created.

sda3 as /boot formatted ext4
sda5 as / formatted ext4
sda6 as swap
sda7 as /home formatted ext4

And uncheck the box that says to use LVM.

Then tell the installer to install the bootloader to the boot sector of sda

going by what you just said, this appears to be your best option.

Do not mess around with sda1 or sda2 or you can totally mess up your Windows install.

[bakunin]

Thanks DBelton,
According to your suggestion

sda1 100 MB NTFS
sda2 250 GB NTFS
sda3 as /boot formatted ext4
sda5 as / formatted ext4
sda6 as swap
sda7 as /home formatted ext4

everything will be okay? But still sda1 is 100 mb and for grub2 files it's not enough.

[DBelton]

you aren't going to put grub2 files in sda1.

Your grub2 files are going to be put in /boot which is sda3. The bootloader itself is going to be installed in the bootsector, and there is room between the MBR and your first partition (starts in sector 2048) for it to put it's core.img file.

[bakunin]

DBelton. I don't beleive you. You are not human! you! stadart nerd! you don't deserve to live in earth! go space! thanks. very very thanks. Now I have f17 with windows7. It was just a dream... wish me to whatever!

[DBelton]

Glad you have it working now

If I had realized from the start that you did not already have Fedora installed, it probably would have gone much faster. I was going by your earlier post which looked like you had Fedora installed, but just couldn't install the bootloader and had not installed Windows yet.

Sorry about the misunderstanding that caused some wasted time and effort.

[bakunin]

Originally Posted by DBelton

Glad you have it working now

If I had realized from the start that you did not already have Fedora installed, it probably would have gone much faster. I was going by your earlier post which looked like you had Fedora installed, but just couldn't install the bootloader and had not installed Windows yet.

Sorry about the misunderstanding that caused some wasted time and effort.

That's all my fault. I could explain clearly with full info. Thanks again dude.

[DBelton]

I'm going to mark this thread as solved. (You really should have done that when the issue was solved by going to the "thread tools" at the top of the page and selecting mark as solved)

If you have other issues, just open a new thread

[venkatachalam]

i have a similiar kind of problem.
i m using DELL STUDIO 1450 3 gb RAM, 320 HDD. i decided to use only linux in my laptop. so i go for the fedora 17 but what happened is at end of the installation i got bootloader failure but installation is successful. so if i switch on my laptop its displays the GRUB RESUCE. so what i suppose to do to get of this problem.

after failed in installation of fedora 17 i went to the fedora 16. during installation of the fedora 16 i m unable to create the swap memory in my laptop. i dont use any other os and i have 50gb for the fedora 16 still im not able create swap memory.