Core 3 Install Problem

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 21:36 -0800, Tom Arnold wrote:
> Thanks for the reply... I suspected the LVM and tried an install without the
> LVM's defined. The system now hangs while attempting to write to the disks
> or fails with an exception. I'm going to try and dig out the error.
> 
> It's almost like the disks are write protected. I can see them in the CMOS,
> and they appear in Anaconda... Any thoughts on what to try next?

Some machines intended to be run as servers have a BIOS option for "OS
installation mode" (I've seen this on a Dell anyway). I've no idea what
this mode is for, but perhaps it's stopping you writing changes to the
partition table or something like that because you're not in "OS
installation mode"?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>