On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 10:03, William Hooper wrote: > Timothy Murphy said: > > Sean Estabrooks wrote: > > > > > >>> The distribution failed disastrously on fairly common machines. > >>> > > > >> That's not my impression at all. There were some specific problems but > >> nothing disasterous. > > > > As I understand it, there was an apparent partition table error > > on dual boot machines. > > There is an error with _some_ dual boot machines, not all. That is why the cause wasn't tracked down until shortly after the release. > > -- > William Hooper > Having experienced this problem with -one- of my machines I firmly believe that part of the issue is the system bios not properly handling LBA for some drives. The only board I had problems with was an MSI board that in bios said the drive was using LBA but it reported the physical C/H/S parameters. The problem AFAICT is not actually the drive or fedora, but is the bios not properly handling LBA. With fdisk -l it also reported those parameters and after using the sfdisk fix found here all my problems went away. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html NOTE: I had to use the two step fix above instead of the simpler one below because of errors being reported by sfdisk that prevented the simpler fix http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nodualboot
