Harty Beta will not load

[Shannon McMackin]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 06/10/2008 05:18 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>     Strange problem. I d/l the Harty iso and it went on a 700 Mb CD-Rom 
>>> and I loaded it a month ago on an IDE HD. It got covered up by my 
>>> fooling around and when I try to load it again this morning it loads but 
>>> then drops back to the LiveCD. Looking at the thing it has loaded 
>>> everything but grub.
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>> I think it will help if you can explain what you mean by: "it loads but
>> then drops back to the LiveCD. Looking at the thing it has loaded
>> everything but grub.".
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>>>     I am trying to put it on a new serial HD this time. Are there any 
>>> issues with this?
>>>     
>> With what?
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>> Are you trying to boot from a CD, trying to boot from the iso, what?
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>> I noticed the 'I'm going to stay with 7.10' thread - I'll stay out of
>> that one - but this question seems to be in the "read my mind" stage...
>> at least for me.
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>> So; start again (please :-), by clearly explaining what it is that you
>> are attempting to do, and what the expected result is. Perhaps then
>> folks can assist. Re-read your post and ask yourself: how would/could I
>> respond regarding this guy's question without asking 5 or more questions
>> just to try and figure out what the issue is?
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>> Karl, You are well enough along w/Ubuntu, linux, and this list, to know
>> how to ask questions that will enable others to assist you. From the
>> above I can't honestly figure out if you are talking about the CD not
>> loading, an iso not loading, if you are attempting an install from the
>> LiveCD, or what.
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>> 73's
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>     I have a CD-Rom I made with the downloaded Hardy Beta. I loaded it 
> and it worked fine. Today I tried to load it to /dev/sda6 and I got it 
> to start loading. It proceeded as if it was happy but instead of asking 
> about grub setup it went back to the CD. I can mount /dev/sda6 to my 
> working 7.10 and it is a almost a complete load but when I looked at 
> boot there was no grub directory. This happened 3 times.
> 
> Karl
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In the BIOS, is your SATA controller set to compat mode or EHCI mode?

In the early betas, EHCI mode was a problem, but the final CD should 
work fine.  If 7.10 is installed with the controller in compat mode, 
then the issue should be that grub was not set up properly.  While I've 
not done a multi-boot set-up with multiple versions on the same machine, 
a perusal of the grub how-to should help you be able to get that 
partition startable in grub.