Bug 125252

Summary:	diskdruid doesn't detect drive geometry properly on some laptops
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bugzkilla <linuxveteran>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Bugzkilla 2004-06-04 03:11:00 UTC

Description of problem:
diskdruid misreports drive geometry and results in damaged partition 
table/inaccessible partitions/unnecessary extra partitions/kernel 
panics

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. partition using diskdruid
2. suffer from damaged partition table
  
Actual results:
after partitioning or even mounting an existing partition the table 
gets damaged and extra small partitions get created. kernel panics 
occur on bootup.

Expected results:
provide fdisk and/or cfdisk as alternative partitioning tool!!!

Additional info:
n/a

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-06-04 06:11:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115980 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:03:56 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.