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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I'm trying to dual-boot Fedora 17 and Windows XP. I installed Fedora from the live-cd with no problem onto a second hard drive, and put GRUB2 on the first drive so it's the boot loader. When I try to boot Fedora I get a "Cannot open file font True" message and it stops booting. I looked around and found that the error should only delay the booting, and found how to fix it. I found out that in GRUB2 I can hit 'e' and modify SYSFONT to get rid of that error. Then I boot and it loads Fedora, shows the Fedora logo, then goes to a black screen and nothing else happens. What is wro (HowTos)

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Submitted by xfrk on 08/03/2012 – Made popular on 08/03/2012

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I'm a relative Linux and Fedora newbie looking for help. (Hopefully I posted this in the right sub forum.)

A few days ago I upgraded from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 via the DVD using the clean install method. The installation ran perfectly fine. Fedora 17 itself runs beautifully. I'm dual booting with Windows 7 and it also runs perfectly fine.

The problem is when grub2 is loading.

I have Fedora 17 running on a machine and I have a spare drive which I would like to install Win 7 on. Windows 7 will blow away my Linux boot so I want to be confident I can sort out the dual boot (or as a minimum, get back to Fedora) afterwards.

I wanted to setup a boot USB (or CD) with a different grub2 menu and confirm that I could boot with this before installing Windows 7.

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I have Ubuntu 11.10 set up on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A105-S2194) and wanted to move it over to my desktop (homebuilt with an AMD Athalon 1800 XP+ processor). I used Clonezilla to copy the disc over to a hard drive that's the exact same size as the one in my laptop. Then I installed it in the desktop, and ran the grub2 updater in fedora.

Each time I login to Fedora 17, no GUI, just a console and notice this error : Cannot open font file True. I have done some tutorial on web to fixed this problem, but still cannot. Here some step that I have done:

1) edit : /etc/default/grub

vi /etc/default/grub. after that , change SYSFONT=True to SYSFONT=atarcyrheb-sun16

2) Edit : /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

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