Bug 29807 - anaconda doesn't deal with disk geometry well
Summary: anaconda doesn't deal with disk geometry well
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 24297
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-27 18:38 UTC by Bryan Headley
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-27 18:38:24 UTC
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Description Bryan Headley 2001-02-27 18:38:20 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-ac5 i686)


After the type of installation you'd like, anaconda looks at the hard disk.
If the disk geometrry is weird, it puts up a complaint message, and exits
after you press the "OK" button.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See the description
2. Now the disc was given a weird geometery by mandrake 7.2
3.
	

Expected Results:  IMHO: "The disk has a goofy geometry. You're doing an
install. What would you like to 
do about it"
1. Wipe the partition table (danger! to! any! existing! data!)
2. Try to fix this with fdisk (you! better! know! what! you! are! doing!)
3. Exit this install and let you try to fix this with another operating
system's partition utility
4. Hah! Let me make a goofy partition for you that rounds up to an even
head/cylinder
boundary

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2001-02-27 22:12:56 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24297 ***


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