Fedora Users — Re: Invalid partition table

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Reshat Sabiq wrote:

I am trying to install FC 2 on a new Presario laptop. I tried twice, w/
boot first at the end of the disk, and then between cylinders 1015-1024.
Both times i got the message above at boot time. I tried also Force
LBA-32 the w/ boot at end of disk (didn't help), and will try the same
for 1015-1024.

I'd appreciate any tips.

Thanks,
<rsa/>

So the install goes OK, but the problem occurs on booting the
installed system?  Is this a dual boot with Windows?  If so, does Windows
still boot?  During the install, did you get a dialog box about repairing
the partition table?  How did you respond?

Boot the Rescue CD or CD 1 in rescue mode and tell us the result of
"fdisk -l /dev/hda".

Thanks Timothy and Matthew for your responses.
Yes, this is a dual boot.
This is how it's currently set up:
/dev/hda1    1            1014   NTFS
/dev/hda2    1015      3446   Extended
/dev/hda3     3447      4661   Unused
/dev/hda4      4662      4863   Unused
/dev/hda5      1015      1024   /boot
/dev/hda6      1025      3316   /
/dev/hda7      3317      3446   swap

I never heard of boot having to be a primary partition, but maybe it has to be? It's currently a logical one.
I set this up using fdisk, and then went on to installing. If i try the same partitioning from the install CD, i get errors about failure to do disk-based (or cylinder based) partitioning. But once it's set up by fdisk in advance, the install CD accepts it just fine.
Since it probably doesn't have much to do with LBA-32 or cylinders for /boot, i will likely try making everything folloing NTFS Unused (1 partition), and then go on to installing and see how the CD manages it. Once it's installed i could resize and re-partition the pieces i need.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks,
<rsa/>

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