From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.23 [en] Description of problem: After looking at the log file I saved from my Testbox, it looks like when it gets to the step where, right after inputting the root password, it starts to build a list of all components. It works for a minute, then crashes, generating the log file I have attached. Basically every step of the way during installation, whenever it would try to read HDB (A Maxtor 30 GB 5400 rpm hard drive containing one NTFS partition) it would say "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another partioning tool blah blah blah", and I always click Cancel. And for the record, Fedora Core 1 had no problems with this hard drive at all. Finally, after I input the root password it would crash right afterwards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start CD-ROM based setup as usual 2. Always click "Cancel" on the warnings that would appear in regards to HDB's improperly aligned drive geometry. 3. Specify my mouse, keyboard language, time zone and all that jazz as usual. 4. Do disk partitioning "Automatically" instead of "Manually via Disk Druid". 5. It will then tell me "The partition table on device hdb was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL data on this drive". I always click No. 6. At the next step, I check "Remove all partitions on this system", making sure to click Yes to allow it. 7. I click through the next hard-drive related steps without changing anything. 8. I then specify my IP address and gateway settings manually, seeing as DHCP has given me problems in the past. 9. Specify my language and then my timezone (you guys really need to make Houston, TX, USA an option and not just Chicago for Central timezone, heh) 10. Input the root password, then click Next. It starts to read packages, then crashes. Expected Results: Ummm, I dunno, just maybe I should have been able to pick the components I want to install and continue on my merry way? :) Additional info:
Created attachment 97699 [details] The result of the unhandled exception generated by Anaconda in Fedora Core 2 test 1
Did you check the CDs with mediacheck?
Can you verify your media following the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html?
I get the following message after I click on the "next" of the LCD resolution section (before type of install: workstation, server, ...) "Unable to align partition properly. This means another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders." ------- There is a bug... or so I think. I tried this both with the #1 Hard Drive install (linux askmethod) and #2 CD install, both bring up the same error. I have no problems installing FC1 on this exact same partition. (I have just tried it now) There is another bug here, in that the two options "Cancel" and "Ignore" do the exact same thing... continue on to the type on fedora install (server, workstation, desktop...) I would expect "Cancel" to exit and reboot the computer. -------- I used partition magic, which does not report any errors what so ever with the partitions. (duel boot winxp/FC2Test1. I created this from a "hard drive" install, from a burned boot cdrom install. (linux askmethod). The first time I installed fedora I ignored this warning, and it installed ok (it did NOT crash like previous post), but partition magic really messed up everything, and it was all down hill from there. (had to delete everything with fdisk (dos) before partition magic (dos) would even format the disk with out freaking out. I gave it a try again after I reinstalled WinXP, and am still getting the same error, but I don't want to go through this again. Any advice Dell inspiron 8000 HITACHI_DK23CA-30 (30GB) /dev/hda1 ntfs 14,300 MB *------- /dev/hd?1 vfat 4,000 MB /dev/hd?2 ext3 boot 55 MB /dev/hd?3 ext3 swap 255 MB /dev/hd?4 ext3 root 5,740 MB /dev/hd?5 ext3 home 4,260 MB MD5SUM is OK when I tested it for the iso. I will test with media check, but if HD install does not work, I am sure the CD will be the same.