Best partitioning? - Comments and question

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Thu May 26 01:39:20 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 23:37 +0000, Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
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> Hi,
> thank you all for help and input.
> 
> I did the following:
> 
> the new HD, a Samsung SP2014N installed in an IBM PC300PL 6862-V20
> 
> After installing the HD I checked the BIOS configuration and saw that
> the PC only recognized about 8,6 GB.
> 
> Well, could not figure out how to make the PC "see" the whole HD so I
> continued to install FC3.
> 
> I used diskdruid and partitioned as follows:
> /dev/hda1:  /boot  251MB
> /dev/hda2:  LVM PV 190529MB
> 
> hda2:
> /var	50016
> /	10016
> swap	4000
> /home	89608
> /usr	35008
> /tmp	2010
> 
> ~From what I can see I miss about 8 GB.
> 
> When rebooting I get the following error message:
> 
> 1880 PCI/PNP Error
> PXE M04
> 
> Then it looks for Network startup and after a while finds FC3 and boots.
> 
> Could it be that there is a hidden partition on the HD that diskdruid
> did not see and format?
> 

It is possible the IBM pc is set in bios to network boot first.  Check
the order of boot devices in the bios.

> Any suggestions anyone?
> 
> Regards,
> Truls
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