Thanks Shrek but the setup ran well but when i rebooted the system hangs. I hoped setup Fedora would have been easier. Quoting "shrek-m@xxxxxx" <shrek-m@xxxxxx>: > Marc Mouriès wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >during the install a message dialog appears saying "unable to align > >partition" > >i ignored the message but after the setup ran well the boot hangs. > > > >Any idea ? > > > > update from RHL9 - FC2, no great problems > fc2 is booting. > > while installation i had the same message "unable to align partition" > > switching to tty1 will tell you: > > > "unable to align partition properly. > this probably means that an other partitioning tool generated an > incorrect partition table, because it didn´t have the correct BIOS geometry. > it is safe to ignore, but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with > some boot loaders. > 96" > > > switching to tty2 you could see something like this with sfdisk: > > # sfdisk -l > [...] > warning: > the partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead > of 77557/16/63) > for the listing i assume this geometry > warning: > start = 63 - this looks like a partition rather than the entire disk > > > > > > what luck that i have no win-dual-boot :-) > > > msi-nforce1-board > > # dmidecode | head -39 > # dmidecode 2.2 > SMBIOS 2.3 present. > 37 structures occupying 990 bytes. > Table at 0x000F0800. > Handle 0x0000 > DMI type 0, 19 bytes. > BIOS Information > Vendor: Award Software International, Inc. > Version: 6.00 PG > Release Date: 05/29/2003 > Address: 0xE0000 > Runtime Size: 128 kB > ROM Size: 256 kB > Characteristics: > ISA is supported > PCI is supported > PNP is supported > APM is supported > BIOS is upgradeable > BIOS shadowing is allowed > ESCD support is available > Boot from CD is supported > Selectable boot is supported > BIOS ROM is socketed > EDD is supported > 5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h) > 5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) > 3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h) > 3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h) > Print screen service is supported (int 5h) > 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) > Serial services are supported (int 14h) > Printer services are supported (int 17h) > CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h) > ACPI is supported > USB legacy is supported > AGP is supported > LS-120 boot is supported > ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported > > > -- > shrek-m > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Marc
