installation error msg. -- boot problem

[Wayne Steenburg]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 23:45, Daniel Goldin wrote:
> Get this message on installation:
> 
> "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another
> partition tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it
> doesn't have the correct bios geometry. It is safe to ignore, but
> ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders."
> 
> Well, what do you know, I seem to have one of those "fixable"
> problems. Computer hangs on reboot most of the time.
> 
> 1) I installed redhat 9 on this hard drive before installing Fedora.
> Might that be the cause of the problem?
> 
> 2) How do I fix this? I am not a programmer, so go easy.
> 
> Any help much appreciated.

If you were bitten by the dual boot (w/ XP) bug try here for the fix:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nodualboot