Rough Fedora 11 Install, still not working

[David Highley]

"Geoffrey Leach wrote:"
> 
> On 06/27/2009 08:43:29 PM, David Highley wrote:
> > After my 5 year old Tyan dual Opteron motherboard died in the middle
> > of
> > installing Fedora 11 the saga continues.
> > 
> > Upgraded to an EVGA X58 Socket 1366 core i7 board, 965 Nehalem CPU,
> > EVGA
> > Nvidia 285 GTX 2G video card, and 2 Raptor 300 GB system disks
> > mirrored
> > in a 3Ware 9500S-8 raid controller. Tried creating a live Fedora 
> > thumb
> > drive from Fedora 10 but liveusb-creator has a bug and has not been
> > updated. Bought a usb DVD burner, all the burners were on the box in
> > the process of being up graded. Burned a disc, tested bad. Booted 
> > from
> > disc and did a network install off my web server. Install completed,
> > did
> > the reboot and now the system will not come up.
> > 
> > Tried rebooting off the DVD disc to see if I could do a rescue, but 
> > it
> > does not boot now.
> 
> Couple of things occur to me.
> 
> First, when you say your box does not boot do you mean that it does not 
> recognize the disk as bootable? In that case, I'd be inclined to get 
> myself a commercially-produced F11 disk. (CheapBytes.com, for example)

Created another DVD at a slower speed which passes the test.

> 
> Or that it does not POST? In that case .... :-(
> 
> Second, as you have an Nvidia card, you will probably have to boot with 
> the vesa option -- its one of the choices on the boot menu, and then
> install the driver later on.

After the raid controller verifies the DMI pool it stops, ie. I do not
see the grub menus. I booted into rescue mode and the file systems
appears to be good. I did a complete reinstall again and have the same
results.

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