At 10:09 AM -0500 11/13/07, Rich Bishop wrote: >Hello, > >Sorry for the double post. I managed to put the other one in the middle of >an old thread. > >I'm trying to install Fedora 8 on a T42 thinkpad which is currently >running FC6. I have a separate partition for /home which contains all of >my data that needs to be preserved. After selecting the keyboard type >the installer pops up a window saying "The partition table on device sda >was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing >the loss of ALL DATA on this drive". Well, I obviously don't want that, >so I say no, and then I have no drives to install to on the next screen. > >Running fdisk -l /dev/sda in the shell on virtual console 2 shows >partition information - but I've just noticed that the information >appears to be wrong: > > >Under Core 6: Drive is 60GB, 7296 cylinders >Under F8: Drive is 56.4GB, 6859 cylinders > > >The partitions look the same, but under F8 my last partition appears to >hang off the end of the disk (as it ends on cylinder 7296). HPA? Changed in F7. You might see "hpa" mentioned in FC6 dmesg log. Perhaps adding "libata.ignore_hpa=1" to the boot params will help. At 5:24 PM -0400 5/24/07, Jeremy Katz wrote: ... >Magic added to anaconda to recognize and dtrt with libata.ignore_hpa=1 >as a command line flag. Post F7, I'll make it generic for all modules >and module options. At 3:58 PM -0400 5/24/07, Jarod Wilson wrote: ... >... You can put the following into /etc/modprobe.conf: > >options libata libata.ignore_hpa=1 > >Then upgrade via yum. Sub-optimal for those who prefer to upgrade via >anaconda, but its an option. ... At 4:15 PM -0400 5/24/07, Jarod Wilson wrote: ... >This link gives some data on how to use the setmax utility to nuke the >hpa area on a drive, which you could do under FC6, and subsequently, an >anaconda-based F7 upgrade should work fine: > >http://www.niiconsulting.com/checkmate/2006/09/hiding-data-with-hpahost-protected-area-in-linux/ ... -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
