installation error msg. -- boot problem
Timothy Payne
tim at tmpco.com
Mon Nov 1 06:02:32 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 20:45, Daniel Goldin wrote:Get this message on
installation:
>
> "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another
> partition tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it
> doesn't have the correct bios geometry. It is safe to ignore, but
> ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders."
>
> Well, what do you know, I seem to have one of those "fixable"
> problems. Computer hangs on reboot most of the time.
>
> 1) I installed redhat 9 on this hard drive before installing Fedora.
> Might that be the cause of the problem?
>
> 2) How do I fix this? I am not a programmer, so go easy.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
I was having trouble with a dual boot problem in FC2 and someone on the
list said Fedora reported the geometry of the drive wrong to windows. I
don't know if this bug was ever fixed. This may be a place to look.
And no, I'm not a programmer ether, those guys make it sound so simple.
" Just do X Y Z see it's so simple " :-)
Tim...
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