<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Matthew Saltzman wrote: <blockquote cite="midPine.GSO.4.58.0407090917560.9603@access.ces.clemson.edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Reshat Sabiq wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I am trying to install FC 2 on a new Presario laptop. I tried twice, w/ boot first at the end of the disk, and then between cylinders 1015-1024. Both times i got the message above at boot time. I tried also Force LBA-32 the w/ boot at end of disk (didn't help), and will try the same for 1015-1024. I'd appreciate any tips. Thanks, <rsa/> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> So the install goes OK, but the problem occurs on booting the installed system? Is this a dual boot with Windows? If so, does Windows still boot? During the install, did you get a dialog box about repairing the partition table? How did you respond? Boot the Rescue CD or CD 1 in rescue mode and tell us the result of "fdisk -l /dev/hda". </pre> </blockquote> Thanks Timothy and Matthew for your responses. Yes, this is a dual boot. This is how it's currently set up: /dev/hda1 1 1014 NTFS /dev/hda2 1015 3446 Extended /dev/hda3 3447 4661 Unused /dev/hda4 4662 4863 Unused /dev/hda5 1015 1024 /boot /dev/hda6 1025 3316 / /dev/hda7 3317 3446 swap I never heard of boot having to be a primary partition, but maybe it has to be? It's currently a logical one. I set this up using fdisk, and then went on to installing. If i try the same partitioning from the install CD, i get errors about failure to do disk-based (or cylinder based) partitioning. But once it's set up by fdisk in advance, the install CD accepts it just fine. Since it probably doesn't have much to do with LBA-32 or cylinders for /boot, i will likely try making everything folloing NTFS Unused (1 partition), and then go on to installing and see how the CD manages it. Once it's installed i could resize and re-partition the pieces i need. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks, <rsa/> </body> </html>