I was thinking of upgrading to 22, and I belatedly discovered that I was still running 20. Do I have to fedup to 21 first, or can I safely just go straight to 22?
[Update a while later]
OK, just discovered why I’m running 20 when I thought it was 21. All this time I’d been thinking that I was booting from my SSD, but it turns out that I’ve been booting from my hard drive, with the older OS on it. I went in to change the boot order, and I can’t find the SSD. The OS can see it with pvdisplay, the BIOS shows it in system status, but it doesn’t appear anywhere in the boot menu. Anyone have any idea what’s going on, or how to get it to show up?
[Update a few minutes later]
Wow, weirder and weirder. I unplugged the hard drive, then rebooted. It booted with the SSD. I went back into the BIOS, and now the SSD is a boot option. I made it highest priority, then shut down and plugged in the hard drive again. Now in the BIOS the hard drive won’t show up as a boot option. Which is OK, because I didn’t want to be booting from it, but it seems like strange behavior from the BIOS.
Anyway, I’m booted into 21 now, and doing a ton of updates. It had been booting from the wrong drive for weeks, and I hadn’t realized it.
For just a moment I thought you were talking about a hat and was going to congratulate on your fine choice of head wear, since I generally sport either a Panama (made in Ecuador, who knew?) or a fedora depending on season, temperature and local wind speed.
I tthink he should find a size that fits and stick with it.
Power down your system, then remove the battery from your motherboard. Wait 30 seconds then put the battery back in, attach both drives and power back up into the BIOS. See if both drives now show up. You’ll have to reset the time of year in the BIOS but that is NBD. Also check your BIOS to see if there are other disk configuration options besides boot priority. Make sure all your hard drives are enabled if there is an option for it. Every BIOS is a little different in this regard and without being there on-site all I can say is good luck!
What’s weird is that both drives do show up, both times, in system status. They’re just not both available for boot.
PS: This is a BIOS issue not a Fedora issue. But glad to hear you are now running off the “correct ” drive. Who knows? Maybe this will solve your reboot issue as well!
I agree, despite the post title, it is clearly a BIOS issue, not blaming the project.
It’s starting to sound like you need to contact the manufacturer of the motherboard.
While it’s a weird situation, it’s not really a problem since I do seem to be able to boot now from the drive I want to boot from.