On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:22:39PM -0400, Brian Kaye wrote: > > > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:18:10PM -0400, bdk@xxxxxx wrote: > >> as to where to look. > > > > What exactly are you trying to do on the Thinkpad? Install over the > > existing FC5 installation, upgrade the existing FC5 installation, or > > install to a partition so that you will have FC5, FC6 and Windows > > cohabiting? > > Upgrade from FC5 to FC6. Just stuck the CD in and tried an upgrade. It > said it could not recognize the boot configuration. Hmm, not exactly concise. Next time you try, when you get to this, hit CTL-ALT-F3 (and then CTL-ALT-F[1-7] in sequence), and see if anything jumps out at you as an error message. If you still have the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg from your original installation, you might look at that and see if that gives you any ideas. But that's a long shot. Just for the halibut, I rebooted my machine into the upgrade process, and got all the way past the dependencies process. > > > > > > What exactly did Anaconda complain about? What does your present > > grub.conf show? Do you install grub to the MBR or to the partition's > > boot record? What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda" return. Please copy the > > exact results into your reply. > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 40635 20480008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. This by itself should not be a problem. > /dev/hda2 40636 49935 4687200 12 Compaq diagnostics > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/hda3 49949 50953 506047+ 83 Linux > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. There is a small gap between hda2 and hda3. This is not a problem. > /dev/hda4 50953 116280 32925217+ 5 Extended > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. This MAY be a problem. Notice that hda4 starts on the same cylinder as the one on which hda3 ends. This is probably a result of not ending the previous partition on a cylinder boundary. I wonder if Anaconda is rejecting it for that reason? I built my partitions by hand with Linux' fdisk. I have no idea what Anaconda uses. Anyway, one thing to do is rerun fdisk with -u and make sure no two partitions overlap. > /dev/hda5 50953 71273 10241406 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 71273 91593 10241406 83 Linux > /dev/hda7 91593 101745 5116671 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 101746 103833 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda ... > chainloader +1 All of this looks good to me. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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