From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Epiphany/1.2.4 Description of problem: In the past 2 days I've performed 4 installs of Fedora Core 2 that have complained about partition alignments. The first was a system with a 60 gig hard drive partitioned 23gig for windows, 1gig for swap, and the rest for Fedora. When the install completed no matter where I installed the Grub loader the windows partiton and MBR was corrupt. Had to use the Samsung low level diagnostics utility to zero the mbr and start over. Tried partitioning with fdisk, cfdisk, partition magic, and the windows installer without success. Finally scrapped the FC2 install on this machine. 2 of the installs were on Toshiba laptops with 30 gig hard drives. 16 gig for windows, 1gig for swap, and the rest for linux. Install did not corrupt the windows partiton but the Linux partition is unbootable. Only used the FC2 disk druid to partition these. Last system is a Dell Optiplex GX150. When trying to install on this machine I received the Partition alignment error and aborted the install. All of these machines had Fedora Core 1 installed on the without issue . I am trying to do a full, new install not an upgrade. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 2 Installer How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot with install CD 2.Select defaults for language, and keyboard options. 3.Warning screen appears Actual Results: WARNING: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that 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. Expected Results: No warning message. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115980 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.