installation error msg. -- boot problem

[Daniel Goldin]

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 07:18:02 -0500, Wayne Steenburg
<w.steenburg at myactv.net> wrote:
> 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
> 

No, I have no trouble booting into windows. My problem is boot fails
in Linux, after a few times or if the system shuts down uncleanly. I
have a feeling it has to do with error msg. above.

d.