From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Sorry for my poor english. Anaconda (or something else) complains about differente geometry in parted and Linux. A dialbox say : bios/parted geometry : 39761/16/63 (defaut bios values) linux geometry : 2494/255/63 (confirmed with /var/log/message) In the dialbox i can chose : <ignore> : ignore the error. anaconda scan the disk to find an old RedHat installation. After disk druid show this partition table : type size start end ext3 10 1 21 vfat 4096 22 8343 ext3 15080 8344 38981 swap 259 38982 39507 free 125 39508 39761 # normal. there is some bad blocks that swap can't handle. <cancel> : Don't use the disk to find an old RedHat installation. However, disk druid show the partition table of the disk and i can do an installation on the disk : type size start end free <1 1 1 # normal ? ext3 10 1 2 vfat 4096 2 524 ext3 15080 524 2446 swap 259 2446 2479 free 125 2479 2495 # normal, there is some bad blocks that swap can't handle. Changing the bios values give me the same behavior. Adding hda=39761,16,63 to boot parameters seems OK. No error message. So i don't need to chose between <ignore> and <cancel> . I do a complet installation with default bios, without boot parameters and chosing <ignore> when the error message append. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installe RedHat Phoebe 2. Check values from disk druid Actual Results: Partition table change when <ignore> or <cancel> is used. Expected Results: Same partition table. Additional info: Mainbord : MSI K7T266 Pro2 Ver2.0 IDE controler : VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller Hard disk : WDC WD205AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive 40079088 sectors (20520 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39761/16/63, UDMA(66)
did Red Hat Linux 8.0 get a different geometry? Can you attach /var/log/messages output? Also, when in phoebe, go to Ctrl+Alt+F2 and copy /tmp/syslog to a floppy (using mcopy is the easiest way) and attach that as well.
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