Fedora 8 Installation Problems

[DukeNukem]

Hi to all of you

(these days iam really surrounded by problems)

Recently Ive get hold of 250GB HDD
My PC Conf is PIII 1GHZ/512 MB RAM/i815 DFI Board/Sea. 250GB HDD/SAM 16x DvDRW/LG 48x CDRW.

Earlier i used Sea. 160GB HDD Which is Partitioned like
C: 28GB/
D: 15GB/
(2GB SWAP/ 13GB EXT3)/
E: 30GB/
F: 30GB/
G: 30.9GB

Every thing work perfect here and iwas using it for XPSP2 and Fedora 8

Now Ive Partitioned my 250 GB HDD as
C: 34GB/
D: 20GB/
E: 42GB/
F: 42GB/
G: 52.90GB/
(29.89GB EXT3/ 2GB SWAP)/
Though XPSP2 is working Fine here, but After installing Fedora 8 (installation completes without any probs) on Booting System Hangs While Showing
"GRUB" (without ")

Can some one help me out ive wasted 2 Days By Installing XPSP2 and Fedora 8 again and again and again and again ......................

Please SOS... (iam using Only 250 GB HDD in this case )

[DukeNukem]

So....

No one for a helping hand

[Ricky]

What is your main partition "FileSystem" ? ..
Actually right now getting no Idea, may be GRUB not able to load stage two ..
may be because of main partition being NTFS or something similar.

[praka123]

boot with a livecd run grub-install /dev/sdx where x depends on partn name.
also post the o/p as root in livecd terminal : "fdisk -l"
I think grub is not properly installed.try.

[DukeNukem]

Thanks a lot to reply

Problem solved but with diff solution

First i've installed windows XP (after removing all partitions)
then i've installed fedora 8
then booted into windows and created paritions
(but my three precious days are #$%^&* up, jus for this)

[praka123]

Will be good if u can troubleshoot and repair the install rather than reinstall :(

[Ricky]

hmm..
A agree to Praka.. reinstalling is not the solution !
But good to see that it is solved for u!

[DukeNukem]

Will be good if u can troubleshoot and repair the install rather than reinstall :(

I've Tried it Before Reinstallation Bro., But I thing the 43 GB Partition is the reason for my Problem

i.e When Ive created 43 GB Partition as Active (Primary)
and rest 189 GB as Extended One

232.88
43GB PRIMARY NTFS (WINDOWS XPSP2)
189GB EXTENDED
2GB SWAP (LINUX) (LOGICAL)
26GB EXT3 (LINUX) (LOGICAL)
50GB NTFS (MP3) (LOGICAL)
50GB NTFS (VDO) (LOGICAL)
50GB NTFS (DATA DUMP) (LOGICAL)

Installation Fails Every time for UBUNTU/FEDORA/SUSE
Ive LOST count how many times i've tried in 3 Days

here GRUB Fails .......................

BUT When I've tried This

232.88
43GB PRIMARY NTFS (WINDOWS XPSP2)
2GB PRIMARY SWAP (LINUX)
26GB PRIMARY EXT3 (LINUX)
161GB EXTENDED
50GB NTFS (MP3) (LOGICAL)
50GB NTFS (VDO) (LOGICAL)
50GB NTFS (DATA DUMP) (LOGICAL)

All went OK

Can Any One tell me Why

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Earlier Conditions

149GB
28GB PRIMARY NTFS (WINDOWS XPSP2)
121GB EXTENDED
2GB SWAP (FEDORA) (LOGICAL)
13GB EXT3 (FEDORA) (LOGICAL)
15GB NTFS (DUMP) (LOGICAL)
30GB NTFS (VDO) (LOGICAL)
30GB FAT32 (MP3) (LOGICAL)
31GB NTFS (DUMP) (LOGICAL)

HERe every Combination was possible

I've tried
XP & SUSE
XP & UBUNTU
XP & FEDORA 7/8

------------------------------------------------------------------------

[praka123]

Linux installs fine on logical partitions.for u,if u can complete any install leaving the grub error,u can restore grub.yes.u can restore/reinstall grub via livecd.

[DukeNukem]

Linux installs fine on logical partitions.for u,if u can complete any install leaving the grub error,u can restore grub.yes.u can restore/reinstall grub via livecd.

Ive tried it with Ubuntu

Installed it parallel to Win XP

After installing it, grub Fails

Then Tried to restore the Grub

grub-install /dev/sda1

But the Same error comes.

grub starts and fail in between

[praka123]

^that is not the way i mentioned.u can install grub natively if ur sure ur distro is installed on logical partn.
sorry for copypasting as am very slow in typing :D
read below thing:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html

[DukeNukem]

^that is not the way i mentioned.u can install grub natively if ur sure ur distro is installed on logical partn.
sorry for copypasting as am very slow in typing :D
read below thing:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html

THx will try this (when in trouble again, as for now thin's are settled)