error updating irrelevant partition during FC5 install

[Joel Rees]

I kept getting an error while trying to install FC5 on a system with  
an on-board ATA controller and a second ATA controller card plugged in.

I'd get through the screens for selecting packages and go to do the  
actual format, and get a message to the effect of

     hda4 cannot be updated. changes will not take effect until reboot.

Then I'd get the option to show the nice, helpful debug screen, but,  
particularly considering the point in the install, no way to save  
that long, arcane block of stack dump and whatnot (and I'm not going  
to type it in by hand). The only option besides viewing the debug  
dump is reboot, with the disk untouched.

With the partitions I was cutting, hda4 should not have been updated  
anyway. Root went into hda1, I had the FC5 LVM volume in hda2, and I  
was leaving the old FC3 file system (sans root) in hda3 (Extravagant,  
I know, but I'm not into keeping movies on that 160G hard disk yet,  
so it seems reasonable to just keep it around for a while.), and  
leaving freeBSD in hda4 for the time being.

After some playing around, I left a little unused space at the end of  
the LVM once and was able to proceed to the format and install (and  
am proceeding with the updates now, man they sure take a while). I  
was also able to do an install with one controller only (the one on  
the motherboard).

I've been off-list for a while, so if this has come up before, I  
apologize for the noise. I'm not sure what to look this up under on  
bugzilla, since I don't remember the exact wording of the message.