message "unable to align partition" during install
Marc Mouries
marc at mouries.net
Mon May 24 07:29:04 UTC 2004
Thanks Shrek but the setup ran well but when i rebooted the system hangs.
I hoped setup Fedora would have been easier.
Quoting "shrek-m at gmx.de" <shrek-m at gmx.de>:
> Marc Mouriès wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >during the install a message dialog appears saying "unable to align
> >partition"
> >i ignored the message but after the setup ran well the boot hangs.
> >
> >Any idea ?
> >
>
> update from RHL9 - FC2, no great problems
> fc2 is booting.
>
> while installation i had the same message "unable to align partition"
>
> switching to tty1 will tell you:
>
>
> "unable to align partition properly.
> this probably means that an other partitioning tool generated an
> incorrect partition table, because it didn´t have the correct BIOS geometry.
> it is safe to ignore, but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with
> some boot loaders.
> 96"
>
>
> switching to tty2 you could see something like this with sfdisk:
>
> # sfdisk -l
> [...]
> warning:
> the partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead
> of 77557/16/63)
> for the listing i assume this geometry
> warning:
> start = 63 - this looks like a partition rather than the entire disk
>
>
>
>
>
> what luck that i have no win-dual-boot :-)
>
>
> msi-nforce1-board
>
> # dmidecode | head -39
> # dmidecode 2.2
> SMBIOS 2.3 present.
> 37 structures occupying 990 bytes.
> Table at 0x000F0800.
> Handle 0x0000
> DMI type 0, 19 bytes.
> BIOS Information
> Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
> Version: 6.00 PG
> Release Date: 05/29/2003
> Address: 0xE0000
> Runtime Size: 128 kB
> ROM Size: 256 kB
> Characteristics:
> ISA is supported
> PCI is supported
> PNP is supported
> APM is supported
> BIOS is upgradeable
> BIOS shadowing is allowed
> ESCD support is available
> Boot from CD is supported
> Selectable boot is supported
> BIOS ROM is socketed
> EDD is supported
> 5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
> 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
> 3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
> 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
> Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
> 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
> Serial services are supported (int 14h)
> Printer services are supported (int 17h)
> CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
> ACPI is supported
> USB legacy is supported
> AGP is supported
> LS-120 boot is supported
> ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
>
>
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>
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