F8 Install - partition table unreadable

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On 13/11/2007, Rich Bishop <rjb38 at drexel.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 on a T42 thinkpad which is currently
> running FC6. I have a separate partition for /home which contains all of
> my data that needs to be preserved.
[...]
> Under Core 6: Drive is 60GB, 7296 cylinders
> Under F8: Drive is 56.4GB, 6859 cylinders
>
> The partitions look the same, but under F8 my last partition appears to
> hang off the end of the disk (as it ends on cylinder 7296).
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F7Common#head-65f561a07fdf2889f310f3aac0ab0f984faf3e9c

You might be suffering from that.

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