Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk when installing Fedora 12, was "Part of hard disk disappeared..."

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:49 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Wed, November 25, 2009 8:47 am, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:39 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> >> Monday I installed Fedora 12 x86_64 on that disk, accepting all the
> >> defaults. Installation went OK, but I ended up with a disk that (see
> >> command outputs below) has logical volumes containing swap, /boot on
> >> /dev/sda1, / on /dev/sda2, for a total space, if I understand correctly,
> >> of only 250 GB.
> >>
> >> What happened and why? Where are those missing ~100 GBytes, and how do I
> >> recover them without reinstalling from scratch?
> >
> >
> > Please paste also the output of
> >  # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> 
> Here it is, thanks:
> 
> [root at polaris ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000acea3
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1          26      204800   83  Linux
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2              26       30401   243991201   8e  Linux LVM

According to fdisk, you only have 250GB drive.
BIOS issue?

I'll be interesting to look at the kernel log.
Could you post the contents of /var/log/dmesg?

- Gilboa