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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