Bug 29205
Summary: | Disk druid (both text and GUI) has error when creating partitions. | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Sheffer Clark <sclark> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
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Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-03-05 16:22:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Sheffer Clark
2001-02-24 19:08:44 UTC
Please give the original partition state of your system and the partition state when you are trying to add the '/' partition. Most likely you are trying to add '/' and there is only space about the 1024 cylinder limit, so the allocation fails (since we can only be sure that BIOS will boot from below the 1024 cylinder limit). We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release. I am installing the boot partition about the 1024 cylinder limit. I tried the "Wolverine" beta version and it also returned an error, but gave a clearer message, saying the boot sector was greater than the 1024 limit. However, RedHat 7.0 allowed me to create a boot partition above this limit. I did have to change the lilo.conf file to use 'LBA32' to get lilo to work. 'Wolverine' gave a warning message after the disk druid saying that the BIOS appeared to support LBA. Shouldn't disk druid give a warning but still allow you to create the partition? Because of the problems we've seen with different BIOSs returned erroneous information about whether or not they support LBA32, we opted to not let disk druid create partitions which extend above the 1024 cylinder limit automatically. If you make a partition with the fdisk program, then assign it to '/' (or '/boot') in the disk druid screen, it will let you use it. Be sure you make a boot floppy no matter what you do, in case something goes wrong with your motherboard/LILO interaction. |