From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: Dunno if this is a kernel bug or an installer bug. I went to upgrade a standard Dell workstation from FC1 to FC4 but the installer acts like it's a fresh install. When I got to the point of doing the partitioning the installer tossed up a dialog saying it couldn't read the partition table of sda and then offered me sdb and hdb. It looks like either the partition table scanner got confused or the kernel is failing to access /dev/sda correctly. Rather odd. This machine does dual-boot Linux and XP so perhaps the partition table parsing broke. Tell me what command does that and I can have a play, or can send you a copy of the partition table. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. INstall fc4 2. 3. Additional info:
If you flip to tty2, is there anything out of the ordinary in dmesg ? you should also have access to parted/fdisk from there, which should prove interesting.
http://fedora.isphuset.no/ contains an unofficial Fedora 4.1, which may get you up and running, as it has a install kernel based on one of the errata kernels.