Oops

[Gene C.]

OK, I decided to play with fc-development but ran into a show stopper (for me) 
of doing too much yet.  My question is really, "is this a known problem?"

OK, I tried installing on two real systems (P-II smp and P-III smp both with 
IDE harddisks) and as a vmware guest (virtual SCSI on AMD 2800+ real CPU).

The vmware guest install went fine except that my Dell 2000FP (Analog) monitor 
was not identified (nor was it identified on the installs on real hardware).

On real hardware (and on both systems), the LBA characteristics of the disks 
were not recognized.  On the dual P-II I followed the recommendation of 
specifying hda=784,255,63 and then it came up OK (although I chickened out 
and aborted the install).

On both real systems I had previously installed both RHL9 and FC1 and they 
installed OK.  Since parted has not really changed between FC1 and FC-Dev, I 
must assume it has something to do with the 2.6 kernel.

Now working with this "bleeding edge" stuff is where I expect to have problems 
but I am concerned when it involves whole harddisks where other stuff can be 
stored.  I would really prefer not to screwup the harddisks.

OK, is this a known problem ... I checked bugzilla (kernel) and did not find 
anything that sounded like this ... either under Fedora Core or Red Hat Raw 
Hide.

I am using the fc-development downloaded 15 Dec 2003 which includes the 
2.6.0-0.test11.1.13 kernel.

BTW, I found some kernel reports filed under Fedora Core and others under Red 
Hat Raw Hide.  It would be handy to have a version=development under Fedora 
Core.
-- 
Gene