Fedora Core 6 Install Problem on dual boot Thinkpad
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Nov 6 17:16:54 UTC 2006
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:22:39PM -0400, Brian Kaye wrote:
>
>
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:18:10PM -0400, bdk at unb.ca wrote:
> >> as to where to look.
> >
> > What exactly are you trying to do on the Thinkpad? Install over the
> > existing FC5 installation, upgrade the existing FC5 installation, or
> > install to a partition so that you will have FC5, FC6 and Windows
> > cohabiting?
>
> Upgrade from FC5 to FC6. Just stuck the CD in and tried an upgrade. It
> said it could not recognize the boot configuration.
Hmm, not exactly concise.
Next time you try, when you get to this, hit CTL-ALT-F3 (and then
CTL-ALT-F[1-7] in sequence), and see if anything jumps out at you as
an error message.
If you still have the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg from your original
installation, you might look at that and see if that gives you any
ideas. But that's a long shot.
Just for the halibut, I rebooted my machine into the upgrade process,
and got all the way past the dependencies process.
>
>
> >
> > What exactly did Anaconda complain about? What does your present
> > grub.conf show? Do you install grub to the MBR or to the partition's
> > boot record? What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda" return. Please copy the
> > exact results into your reply.
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 40635 20480008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
This by itself should not be a problem.
> /dev/hda2 40636 49935 4687200 12 Compaq diagnostics
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/hda3 49949 50953 506047+ 83 Linux
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
There is a small gap between hda2 and hda3. This is not a problem.
> /dev/hda4 50953 116280 32925217+ 5 Extended
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
This MAY be a problem. Notice that hda4 starts on the same cylinder as
the one on which hda3 ends. This is probably a result of not ending
the previous partition on a cylinder boundary. I wonder if Anaconda is
rejecting it for that reason? I built my partitions by hand with
Linux' fdisk. I have no idea what Anaconda uses. Anyway, one thing to
do is rerun fdisk with -u and make sure no two partitions overlap.
> /dev/hda5 50953 71273 10241406 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 71273 91593 10241406 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 91593 101745 5116671 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 101746 103833 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
...
> chainloader +1
All of this looks good to me.
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