From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6 i686) Description of problem: I have an aged 486-based computer that's been running RHL 4.2 for years. The computer contains a pair of Quantum LPS 420A drives with cchhss=1010,16,51. According to fdisk on RHL 7.1,hda has these partitions: 1 1 20 8134+ 82 Linux Swap 2 21 1010 403920 83 Linux hdb has 1 1 20 412054+ 83 Linux Swap the installer complains about hda. Before I've even chosen which drive to install to - for all it knows I might want to install to hdb. The existing partition structure has been on hda since RHL 4.2 was new. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Partition your drive as above 2.Try to install RHL 7.1 3. Actual Results: "An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device hda. The error was: "Partition(s) do not end on cylinder boundary." It goes on to explain that this is because the drive geometry detected by the kernel is different from the drive geometry used to partitiion the drive. Expected Results: I expect to be able to install to this drive; if not that one, then at least to the other. It happens I'm happy to repartition the drive. Additional info: I've classified its severity as "High" because as it stands it's unusable.
Try passing 'linux noprobe' at the syslinux bootup screen. This *should* allow the kernel to be more liberal in it's interpretation of disk geometry. Does this solve the problem?
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