FC4 anaconda problem

Eric Tanguy eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Tue Jun 14 17:14:43 UTC 2005


> Eric Tanguy wrote:
>
>>My new 80 Go disk is well recognised by bios but anaconda seems to not
>>understand this disk geometry and fail to install FC4. Is there a kernel
>>boot special option i can try to solve this or have i to change my disk
>>for a better know company one ?
>>Thnaks
>>
> Without asking the usual 100 questions to get a better idea of your h/w
> configuration, which would be a great help, Chances are it's a problem
> with your BIOS and/or your HDD controller. Not the hdd it's self. I
> would first check the website of you Motherboard vendor and look for any
> BIOS upgrades, controller drivers etc. check to see if the BIOS is
> detecting the drive with the correct paramaters. have a look on the
> drive manufacturers site for correct settings and try to set it up
> manually.
>
>  There are many other things to try but this would be my first step.
>

My bios is up to date. I changed the disk for a 120 GB well known one and
all seems fine now. The installation is running!
Eric





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