On Saturday, July 31, 2010 19:25:50 JB wrote: > JB <jb.123abc <at> yahoo.com> writes: > > ... > > # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xa8a8a8a8 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 4462 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 4463 4717 2048287+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA) > /dev/sda3 4718 12162 59793409 5 Extended > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda5 4718 5961 9989120 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 5962 8094 17133291 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 11919 12162 1951744 82 Linux swap / > Solaris /dev/sda8 8095 11918 30716248+ c W95 FAT32 > (LBA) > > Hi, > this is part 2. > Above you see your disk layout. > You have noticed that there is one primary partition missing - the sda3 > should be a primary partition (even if unused free space), the extended > partition would be sda4, and the logical partitions would be sda5, sda6, I don't see a problem with extended partition being sda3. You don't need to have all partition slots filled --- once I had one primary and one extended partition on my drive (sda1 and sda2), and this usually works without any problems. I understand the OP has a problem with Anaconda insisting(??) to reinitialize the partition table of the sda drive, as if the drive was never used before. Other than the warning that sda3 doesn't end on cylinder boundary, I see nothing wrong with the partition table above. And I'm not convinced that the cylinder boundary thing could confuse Anaconda that much. Since the OP claims that this setup works well with both Windows and Ubuntu but not with Fedora, my advice would be to burn a Fedora Live CD, boot it, and do a fdisk -l again to see if Fedora provides some different kind of output. That might give a clue to what is going on. For the OP --- during the Fedora installation, are you sure to have selected "create custom layout" on the partitioning screen of Anaconda? There are typically several choices there, and if you choose custom layout, you will be given an option to manually select which partition is to be mounted where, will they be formatted or not, etc. I guess that is what you want to use, in order to have full control over the partition layout. If Anaconda forces you to reinitialize the partition table (ie. delete all partition information and start from scratch) on a perfectly well-behaving drive, then it either means there is a serious bug/corner case in Anaconda somewhere, or that you have a hardware or bios problem. The above partition table looks completely OK, AFAIK. And I have never seen Anaconda insisting on reinitializing the partition table except on a brand new, unformatted drive. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
