FC1 -> FC2 upgrade problem...

[Mike Cisar]

Have been having a major issue trying to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 and I'm
hoping someone on the list may have some insight.  This server is running
software raid1 with two identical IDE 20 Gig drives.  Tried to do the
upgrade and the installer flashed a "inconsistant partition table... this
error may safely be ignored... etc" message (only once, not twice as I have
seen in the past when working with software RAID systems).  I ignored the
error, and the installer chugs along, gets past "transferring install image
to HD".  Everything seems to be going smoothly, then an error that the
install has "terminated unexpectedly it is safe to reboot your machine".
Luckily this situation has been non-destructive and when I reboot I'm back
to my FC1 without any problems.

There are really no errors popped up on the screen indicating the exact
cause of the error (and I can't see any install log gettign created
anywhere), so I am making the big assumption that the error is caused by the
partition table issue.

Being software RAID, I broke the mirror, zero-filled the drive, jotted down
the CHS information the maxtor utility returned (32xxx/16/63), verified that
these were the same numbers the system bios was seeing on auto-detect, hard
coded them onto the kernel command line just to be sure.  Then went in with
fdisk and created a partition structure and then re-added the newly
partitioned drive into the mirror.  Once that was complete, I repeated the
same process on the other of the two drives. 

Booted into the installer and got an exact repeat of the first attempt,
including the partition table warning.  I'm really puzzled as to why
re-creating the partition tables on both drives, with fdisk, under Linux has
not resulted in a partition table that Linux is happy with.  Also puzzled
that it is only complaining once, as if it's only seeing issue with one of
the two drives (although the error message gives no indication of which
drive it has issue with)... these are both identical drives, same brand,
same model, same geometry reported by Maxtor diagnostics.  

Any suggestions are appreciated, I'd really rather avoid having to do a
total reinstall on this system if at all possible.

Cheers,
>>>>> Mike <<<<<<