I have a 20GB disk with 2490 cylinders. Disk Druid will not use this disk during an install. RH 6.2 graphical install will allow you to use fdisk to create a partition and Druid allows you ypu to select this one. When I tried the Wolverine FTP install, it treated the fdisk warnings as fatal and would not present the 20GB disk in the select partition dialog. Thus I am unable to install.
What were the fdisk warnings?
[root@opal print]# fdisk /dev/hdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2490. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) I always use cfdisk to create partitions and that gives no warnings. The XOSL loader and latest lilo have no problems with large disks either. The FTP install sees the warning (I guess) and presents a message box inviting you to skip the disk!
Sorry, should have added fdisk does not like the partitions boundaries, this is the error message install barfs with. Using the RH6.2 CDROM I get the same messages but can proceed after creating the new partition (/dev/hdb4). I have never experienced any problems with these partitions! The FTP install should treat this situation as non-fatal. [root@opal /root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2490 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 763 6126592+ 5 Extended Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(762, 185, 63) should be (762, 254, 63) /dev/hdb2 * 763 959 1572984 82 Linux swap Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(958, 141, 63) should be (958, 254, 63) /dev/hdb3 959 1089 1047784+ e Win95 FAT16 (LBA) /dev/hdb4 1090 2090 8040532+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb5 1 1 1953 78 Unknown /dev/hdb6 1 16 124960+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb7 16 265 1999840+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 265 763 3999712+ 83 Linux
Could you append the output of /proc/ide/hdb/geometry when booted until 6.2? Also from the 7.0 installer. To get this you need to switch to VC2 (cntl-alt-f2) and then you can see a command prompt, where you can type cat /proc/ide/hdb/geometry For some reason the 2.4 kernel seems to think your disk geometry is different than the 2.2 kernel in 6.2 did.
I tried boot.img and bootnet.ing from Wolverine and neither allow Alt-F2 to get to a command prompt. Also 'linux rescue' still puts you into the install. On 6.2 the geometry is: physical 39693/16/63 logical 2490/255/63 On 7.1 I can see the logical geometry is the same from the mount messages. I think the difference is that with RH6.2 I used the graphical install which allows you to use fdisk and then Druid. The geometry warnings are ignored. The text install treats them as fatal. HTH
Try these update images (make an ext2 floppy, copy these onto it, then boot the installer like 'linux updates expert', and insert the floppy when prompted). When it asks about a driver disk say 'No'. Please let me know if this helps! The files you want are: ftp:/people.redhat.com/~msf/bug32122/*.so
Tried the update but got 'cpio failed on anaconda/newtpyfsedit.so: no space left on device'. Looks like the RAM drive is full. Maybe you could create a new bootnet.img?
Could you try running 'strip' on the two .so files, should make them alot smaller. I forgot to do that. Try that out first.
I did the strip and now get 'error 2 reading header: cpio: bad magic' I tried two diskettes and the same result. Any idea? I will be away until Monday.
Hmm we might be too different in versions for the update to work as I had hoped it might. I've tested this internally with a partition table like yours and it is working fine. The final release will have this fix so you'll be able to install it. Thanks for your help in resolving this issue.