From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: kernel-2.6.5-1.319 can't handle partitions in GPT. For example, # parted /dev/sda (Omitted) Using /dev/sda (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-34732.890 megabytes Disk label type: gpt Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags 1 0.017 128.016 fat16 boot 2 128.017 4224.016 ext3 3 4224.017 5248.016 linux-swap 4 5248.017 34732.874 ext3 (parted) quit # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/sda5 is not a valid block device However the kernel can handle fine the MS-DOS disk label. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.319 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.make gpt partitions by using parted 2.boot with kernel-2.6.5-1.319 3.mount partitions in gpt. Actual Results: mount: /dev/sda5 is not valid block device Expected Results: mounted normally. Additional info: GPT is used by Windows2003 Server, this is important to support this. RHEL3 kernel(2.4.21-4.EL) can handle this, but this kernel is based 2.6...
fixed in rawhide, even though fedora core has no ia64 release.