Fedora 20 install.

It is installing Fedora 20 and says it is installing Boot Loader and
saying it Successfully Installed and to reboot.

I'm installing Fedora 20 on sdb, a 2TB hardrive.

Windows 7 is installed on sda a 500gb hardrive with old version fo Fedora 18

When I reboot computer it is still booting up on sda into a old version of Fedora 18.

My partition setup on sdb is;

sdb1 /
sdb2 swap
sdb3 /home

Standard Partitions
EXT4

Here is a copy of fstab.


#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Mon Apr 21 00:55:29 2014
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=5fedd5e2-7c61-4b13-a023-83d98c4800a4 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=5a13df7e-7d73-4eb8-8672-50d38a0b3e9a /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/luks-e9dbc4e5-74d0-4f25-8586-6bae3e202309 swap swap defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0

As one would expect until you tell it something else.
Check the boot order in the BIOS.

The boot order is CDrom, Harddrive. it has no problems of booting into sda , but it won't boot into sdb like it is supposed to.

The CD has been removed from drive.

I reinstalled Fedora 20 Fresh and still get the same results, It still reboots to sda into Fedora 18 instead of sdb 2tb drive, Fedora 20.


/boot/initramfs-0-rescue-8263cafda4694e019c7572777525b630.img

/boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-8263cafda4694e019c7572777525b630


/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.11.10-301.fc20.i686' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.11.10-301.fc20.i686-advanced-372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1' 372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46
fi
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.10-301.fc20.i686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.11.10-301.fc20.i686.img
}
menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 0-rescue-8263cafda4694e019c7572777525b630' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-0-rescue-8263cafda4694e019c7572777525b630-advanced-372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46' {
load_video
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1' 372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46
fi
linux /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-8263cafda4694e019c7572777525b630 root=UUID=372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46 ro vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-8263cafda4694e019c7572777525b630.img
}

why don't you boot your host system and then open a terminal and run "blkid" and see what the sdb1 drive UID is. post it.

because this is sda make sure you update your grub after you install it.
again it is trying to mount sda and again it is trying to load we can see that sda is blkid=372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46
and your root=372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46


hd0 is sda msdos1 is sda1 - hd0,msdos1
if I was you make sure you boot to your host system. and run
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

if you want to install grub on that new drive and used sdb to boot from then change your hard drive order in bios.
if your going to keep both drives then make sure. you update your grub2.

so to use this you can manually add a new menu to your grub.cfg with your favorite editor.that's pretty much what grub2 update is going to do.

/dev/sdb1: LABEL="/" UUID="372e1768-343a-4c42-93cd-6c5ff9c94c46" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="swap" UUID="1c03051e-29b5-4259-af54-2f7956251485" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="/home" UUID="fff4b95f-65f3-4e28-94cf-b5370067763d" TYPE="ext4"

When you installed Fedora 20, you should have had an option as to where to install the bootloader but you haven't said which option you chose. Based on the information, I would guess to the / partition on sdb which would be sdb1. If you install it to the mbr of sdb, then you need to change the boot order so sdb boots first. If you don't have that option in the BIOS, which would be surprising but not impossible, then that won't work.

The grub.cfg file you posted is for Fedora 18 on sda so that doesn't tell us anything except there is no entry for Fedora 20. Boot into Fedora 18 and try running the command below with of course, the other Fedora 20 drive attached. Obviously, done as root user.

You could also mount the Fedora 20 partition from Fedora 18, then navigate to the Fedora 20 grub.cfg file and copy its entry to the Fedora 18 grub.cfg. You would probably need to run the command above to make this permanent so not much point other than testing. You can get detailed and very useful information on Grub at the Fedora project site below

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2

Fedora 20 did not give me the option to select the bootloader location, it did it automatically in Post install.

This is the first time in Fedora that I have not been able to select bootloader location, I guess this is a new change in Fedora 20.

# 1 .
That's actually what it did.

I guess you want sda. ?
Then boot into sdb => Fedora 20, by using an external boot loader on CD,
e.g. Smart Boot Manager → sbootmgr.iso
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S...it?usp=sharing

In Fedora 20, you can then run # /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda/

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I downloaded shootmgr.iso, but how does that work ?

What happened when you ran the command suggested at the Fedora project from the link I posted? As I indicated in my previous post, your grub.cfg is Fedora 18 which you can see by the partition number in the menuentry listings as well as the kernel version.

If you want to boot Fedora 20, update the grub on Fedora 18. If you want to select the boot drive in BIOS or do something else you need to explain.

# 11 .
How to burn a cd, or how to boot into cd ? What do you mean ?

Using the CD : A menu will appear.
Select HD0 to boot sda.
Select HD1 to boot sdb.

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you dont see it your setting up your fstab incorrect and your telling the machine to look for sdb1 on sda1 partition.
Have fun
and root=UUID=your blkid they better match your fstab.

Solved, how does one put Solved in subject line ?

Well I do appreciate all of your help , and I sure have learn a lot to work about grub. But I not sure how long I will remember all this, at 74 the ole brain just forgets a lot of things faster.

I did As much changing as I could, to no aviale.
So I just put the 2tb drive in sda and the 500gb in sdb and reinstalled without any hitches . I do believe Fedora has a lot of work to fix booting up on sdb. I tried 3 reinstalls without any luck.
I can now boot all three OS's Fedora 20, Fedora 18, Windows 7,
Now to move all my files from Fedora 18 to Fedora 20.

The Shootmgr.img is a handy disk to have around, if I don't misplace it to where I can never find it again.

Thanks again guys !!!