Flash Drive Installation: Operating System not found


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I just got done installing fedora 16 on my dell laptop, when I rebooted I got the message "Operating System not found". Did Fedora not create an MBR? I saw during the install process that it did.

I also get this message if I try and boot from disk options

"Booting from local disk...

Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue."

Having followed the bug reports through the Beta, RC and Final, here are my suggestions.

1) Check if you are using EFI or EUFI. Lots of problems with that right now.

2) Fedora uses "Grub2" as a boot loader, vs MBR. You can run though the install again and double check that it does. Make sure it installs that on the hard drive and NOT the flash drive, as there was a bug where it didn't hide the flash drive as a valid boot loader install location.

  On 08/11/2011 at 21:15, Sonic. said:

I just got done installing fedora 16 on my dell laptop, when I rebooted I got the message "Operating System not found". Did Fedora not create an MBR? I saw during the install process that it did.

I also get this message if I try and boot from disk options

"Booting from local disk...

Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue."

Better give us some more info like which model of dell, hard disk spec, system spec etc.

Also do one thing. boot any live cd, go to terminal and run

fdisk /dev/sda (considering sda is the drive you installed fedora into.)

then press p

paste the result of that command here.

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  On 10/11/2011 at 05:52, pers3us said:

Better give us some more info like which model of dell, hard disk spec, system spec etc.

Also do one thing. boot any live cd, go to terminal and run

fdisk /dev/sda (considering sda is the drive you installed fedora into.)

then press p

paste the result of that command here.

Well, I have gotten a similar result, except it says "Operation System not found."

I have tried the SSD both as Drive 1 and Drive 2.

The Dell laptop in my case is an XPS 17.

I will try to boot into rescue mode and do an 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' and see what I get.

However, this is getting very frustrating.

Actually, Fedora 16 uses GPT, not MBR, so you have to use parted print to display the partition table.

On mine, the first partition is 1049kB in size and called bios_grub.

The second is 524MB in length and is an ext4 partition and marked bootable.

The third is approx 512GB in length and is an LVM partition.

There seems to be a clue in /root/install.log.

The last two lines say:

grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config.

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