<!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"> Reshat Sabiq wrote: <blockquote cite="mid40EF6B3B.5060205@csociety.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> Reshat Sabiq wrote: <blockquote cite="mid40EF69F4.7080000@csociety.org" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> 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/> </blockquote> Forgot to mention: Windows boots fine. Trying restore from rescue CD was unsuccessful: it reinstalled boot loader, but there's nothing about partitioning. It looks like fdisk might be accepting partitioning that is invalid. I haven't experienced invalid partitioning before, so don't know what the criteria might be. I considered myself the king of partitioning... :) </blockquote> Problem solved: GRUB and logical /boot are not in peace w/ each other. :) I believe Disk Druid needs an enhancement (technically this could be called a bug): if the user specifies GRUB as bootloader and /boot is not primary, this should be descriptively reported back to the user. The code to check this is already there, because this gets prevented while partitioning entirely in Disk Druid, but if partitioning has been done in advance (such as w/ fdisk), Disk Druid lets it pass. Can i report this as a bug, and if yes is <tt><a name="i827"><tt>bugs@redhat.com the right venue? I don't know how many people pre-partition like that, but i tend to think i'm not the only one. And yes, i will never forget the lesson learnt, but i wish i didn't spend that much time on learning it. :) Thanks, <rsa/> </tt></a></tt> </body> </html>