Welp, I gave up on rescuing that installation, and built a new one with the latest version on a spare 250G SSD. It only took me a couple hours to reinstall most of the software I need, including my virtual Windows machine, which is a lot less time than I wasted trying to get the other one to boot. I also built a shell script to make it easier next time (and we know there will be a next time).
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So the hardware was good but the boot was corrupted?
Yes. Which I knew, because it had no problem booting from the live USB. I wanted to “just” fix the boot, but I couldn’t. It ended up being easier to just build a new system, particularly since it’s the latest version.
Did you try boot-repair?
I tried repairing the boot. Is “boot-repair” a specific piece of software? I so, I didn’t try it.
Yes, it’s software. for your next adventure in Fedora-Land:
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/
Man. If only link had been posted in the earlier thread. ^_^
I had mistakenly thought that Duckduckgo was his friend. Oh well.
I’m sorry, Chris, but do you really think I did not do a lot of DuckDuckGoing on how to fix a Fedora boot?
I will confess that I didn’t search for “boot repair.” I was looking for “Fedora won’t boot.”
Well if you still have the old disk you could give it a try. What’s to lose?
Just time, since I’m happy with the new install. I’d only do it out of curiosity to see if that would have solved the problem, and as a guide if it happens again.
Well, now that you have us all curious =p
Anyway. Good man. Esp.the scripting part. This will save you a ton of time in future installs. (And yes with Fedora there are ALWAYS future installs. 🙂
Don’t know the original thinking, but at this point I’d go Ubuntu or straight Debian for a home box.
Between CentOS being essentially killed off and the general flakiness of Fedora I don’t think unpaid versions of Red hat make sense anymore…
I’m becoming quite partial to Ubuntu since adopting it as my VM.