how not to initialize HD

Gregory Hosler ghosler at redhat.com
Sun Aug 1 16:34:27 UTC 2010


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On 08/01/2010 10:47 PM, Darr wrote:
> On Sunday, 01 August, 2010 @04:08 zulu, Gregory Hosler scribed:
> 
>> Now, looking at your logical partitions (with minor rearrangement to
>> make things more obvious):
>>
>>> /dev/sda5            4718  -->   5961     9989120   83  Linux
>>> /dev/sda6            5962  -->   8094    17133291   83  Linux
>>> /dev/sda8            8095  -->  11918    30716248+   c  W95
>>> FAT32(LBA) /dev/sda7           11919  -->  12162     1951744   82 
>>> Linux swap 
>>
>> Suddenly, the reason for the installer's message is glaringly
>> obvious. You do not have any unmapped disk cylinders (as
>> I suspected when I asked for your fdisk -l) 
> 
> 
> Maybe you missed something in the primary's listings, Gregory...
> I seem to recall there being some unmapped cyls there.

Then you weren't looking closely.

- From the original post:

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended

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Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
                (from /var/log/Xorg.setup.log)

| Greg Hosler                                   ghosler at redhat.com    |
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