recover from a bad F16 install

[Paul Allen Newell]

To all:

I have an install DVD that I used to do a fresh install of F16 onto a 
i386/686 machine. I then used it to do a fresh install of a second 
machine. Midway through the formatting/partitioning, it "popped up a 
bug". When I reported it, it pointed me to 743778 which was closed as 
"notabug". At that point, the machine was at some unknown state in its 
formatting.

I now have a machine that is "a brick". There is no operating system on 
it as that got destroyed and any attempts to do a fresh install come 
back with "No usable disks have been found" and I can't make any 
progress. Nothing could be done in the troubleshoot options except get a 
dmesg, which I have attached to this email.

Is this one of these times where I need to get something like 
partedmagic and figure out how to format/partition from there? If so, 
anyone done this before and can give pointers. If not, what other 
options do I have.

The machine in question has two hard drives, if that matters.

For what it is worth, I used the same DVD and am now doing a fresh 
install on a third machine. First and third machines are HP x4000 and 
the second "brick" is HP xw8000. I'm hard-pressed to believe it is a 
difference between x4000 and xw8000, but I thought it ought to mention.

Thanks in advance,
Paul
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